Setting Up for Linux Desktops

For an vSGA configuration, NVIDIA provides a VMware vSphere ESXi Driver for vSGA. For vSGA, an
NVIDIA display driver is not installed on the Linux virtual machine.
Prerequisites
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Verify that vSphere 6.0 U1 or a later release is installed in your environment.
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Verify that NVIDIA driver 346.69 or 346.42 is installed in your environment.
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For an NVIDIA GRID vGPU configuration, verify that the NVIDIA Maxwell M60 GPUs are installed on
the ESXi host.
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For a vSGA configuration, verify that the NVIDIA GRID K1 or K2 GPUs are installed on the ESXi host.
Procedure
1 Download the VIB for your NVIDIA GRID graphics card from the NVIDIA Driver Downloads site.
Select the appropriate VIB version from the drop-down menus.
Option Description
Product Type
GRID
Product Series
For vGPU, select NVIDIA GRID vGPU.
For vSGA, select GRID Series.
Product
Select the version (such as GRID K2) that is installed on the ESXi host.
Operating System
Select the VMware vSphere ESXi version.
2 For an NVIDIA GRID vGPU configuration, take these steps:
a Uncompress the vGPU software package .zip file.
b Upload the vGPU Manager folder to the ESXi 6.0 U1 host.
NOTE You will install the Linux Display Driver on the Linux virtual machine in a later procedure.
3 For a vSGA configuration, upload the VMware vSphere ESXi Driver for vSGA to the ESXi 6.0 U1 host.
4 Power off or suspend all virtual machines on the ESXi host.
5 Connect to the ESXi host using SSH.
6 Stop the xorg service.
# /etc/init.d/xorg stop
7 Install the NVIDIA VIB.
For example:
# esxcli system maintenanceMode set --enable true
# esxcli software acceptance set --level=CommunitySupported
# esxcli software vib install --no-sig-check -v /path-to-vib/NVIDIA-VIB-name.vib
# esxcli system maintenanceMode set --enable false
Setting Up Horizon 7 for Linux Desktops
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