I attempted vgpu passthrough this week, extremely hit or miss but the best community to ask is
I tried both the "Datacenter" and "Quadro" drivers from Nvidia. Other relevant info: Server is a PowerEdge R7525 with 2x Epyc 7302 CPUs and Guest OS is Server 2019. I have tried disabling and uninstalling the SVGA 3D driver but no dice (VMWare Tools seems to put it right back). I feel like it might be related to the fact that the card is a server variant with no display outputs and is meant to be used for compute (which it will also be used for on a later project) but all the Nvidia documentation indicates that it can be used for display acceleration for things like Horizon View. The VM refuses to use the Nvidia GPU and just defaults to the VMWare SVGA 3D driver and won't use the Nvidia card for Blender, games, or anything else that I'm trying to GPU accelerate. After many hours of struggling just getting the VM to boot (hint, there's not much good literature on what the memory mapping value needs to be), I got the VM to boot and installed the drivers and everything is working great! I'm working on an application where I'm passing a GPU (Nvidia RTX 6000 passive) into a VM in ESXi 7u2.
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