emby server esxi 6.7 gpu passthrough

[deeproot 0]

I have VMware 6.7 running an Emby server (Version 3.6.0.80 beta) with PCI passthrough on a Nvidia Quadro P400.  The automatic hardware detection doesn't seem to work. The card seems to work in Ubuntu 18.04 and below is the nvidia-smi output. 

 

esxi vm:

ubuntu 18.04

nvidia quadro p400

 

Sat Dec 22 02:50:06 2018       

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| NVIDIA-SMI 390.77                 Driver Version: 390.77                    |

|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |

| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |

|===============================+======================+======================|

|   0  Quadro P400         Off  | 00000000:03:00.0 Off |                  N/A |

|  0%   39C    P0    N/A /  N/A |      0MiB /  2000MiB |      0%      Default |

+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

                                                                               

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |

|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |

|=============================================================================|

|  No running processes found                                                 |

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

esxi_log.txt

Edited December 22, 2018 by deeproot

[Luke 42079]

Can you please attach the emby server log as well? thanks.

 

@@softworkz

[deeproot 0]

attached emby server log.

emby_server_log.txt

emby_server_log2.txt

Edited December 22, 2018 by deeproot

[Luke 42079]

Thanks !

@@softworkz

[softworkz 5067]

@@deeproot - Although we are reporting

The minimum required Nvidia driver for nvenc is 390.25 or newer

and your driver is reported by nvidia SMI as 390.77 ...

 

Could you please try to install the latest driver?

This would be 410.78 as of today.

[deeproot 0]

I upgraded to 410.78 and it seems to be working.  Thanks for the help.

 

 

I attached the hardware detection log just for fun if it helps anyone.

nvidia_hardware_detection.txt

[Luke 42079]

Thanks for the feedback !