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    Nvidia Quadro P400 not working on Ubuntu server via GPU/PCIe passthrough

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      TheFrisianClause @olivierlambert last edited by

      @olivierlambert Haha yes yes and I thank him for it πŸ˜„ But I will be back on Linux once all of this has been resolved on Nvidia's side.

      Atleast I can migrate everything to XCP-NG now, so I will be accessing the Xen Eco system πŸ™‚

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        olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder🦸 CEO πŸ§‘β€πŸ’Ό last edited by

        Yeah at least it's better than nothing πŸ™‚ I would love NV to remove this limitation on Linux too 😞

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          warriorcookie @olivierlambert last edited by

          yeah, closed source drivers on linux has always felt so.... dirty...

          I'd use AMD if I could, but unfortunately I need NVENC and NVDEC.

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            olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder🦸 CEO πŸ§‘β€πŸ’Ό last edited by

            Yeah I know 😞 That's the issue when there's a greedy leader on a market.

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              TheFrisianClause @olivierlambert last edited by

              @olivierlambert But still if Nvidia has no plans on doing the same for Linux in what it did for Windows, how will XCP-NG/Xen project react to this? Will there be a possibility for a Kernel parameter for Xen to just 'hide' the hypervisor of some sort?

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                olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder🦸 CEO πŸ§‘β€πŸ’Ό last edited by olivierlambert

                It's not that easy sadly. It's not just a parameter, it's a modification needed to be done directly inside Xen. And after that, the guest won't be able to detect Xen (by definition), so say good bye to PV drivers too.

                Maybe there's more elegant solutions, but after discussing with a core Xen dev, there's no "shortcut": this might take a decent amount of resources. I'm not sure it's big priority to us at the moment I'm afraid πŸ˜•

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                  TheFrisianClause @olivierlambert last edited by

                  @olivierlambert Ahh thats a real bummer indeed... Lets hope Nvidia makes the same happen for Linux as it did for Windows, well actually they should otherwise they have a preference of OS so to speak πŸ˜›

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                    TheFrisianClause last edited by

                    I believe we have something here... In May 2022 Nvidia announced their open source Linux drivers.
                    As far as I can read, this is not much but a start.

                    I found this article: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/

                    Maybe this gives us (the consumer) and the XCP-NG team more opportunities to make more use of Nvidia GPU's? πŸ™‚

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                      Pyroteq @TheFrisianClause last edited by

                      @TheFrisianClause I ended up selling my P400 and buying a P2000 which worked straight away. It's possible the P400 may work in future but I didn't want to wait until then.

                      Unfortunate waste of money, but I'm pretty happy with the setup now running 2 XCP-NG hosts now with Plex with the P2000 doing transcoding, game servers and other utilities.

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                        TheFrisianClause @Pyroteq last edited by

                        @Pyroteq Currently I am running my plex server via TrueNAS scale with HW transcoding. So I don't need it with XCP-NG anymore... πŸ™‚ But for the people who do need it, this can be useful to them.

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