Setting Up for Linux Desktops

Also verify that a shared PCI device was added to the virtual machine. See Configure a Shared PCI
Device for vGPU on the Linux Virtual Machine
Procedure
1 Disable and blacklist the default NVIDIA Nouveau driver.
a Edit the grub.conf or grub file.
For RHEL 6, the file is /boot/grub/grub.conf. For RHEL 7, the file is /etc/default/grub.
RHEL Version Command
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sudo vi /boot/grub/grub.conf
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sudo vi /etc/default/grub
b Add the rdblacklist=nouveau line at the end of the kernel options.
c Edit the blacklist.conf file.
sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
d Add the following line anywhere in the blacklist.conf file.
blacklist nouveau
2 Restart the virtual machine.
The display has a changed look and feel.
3 (Optional) Verify that the Nouveau driver is disabled.
/sbin/lsmod | grep nouveau
If the grep search does not return any results, the Nouveau driver is disabled.
4 Copy the NVIDIA Linux Display Driver to the virtual machine.
5 Open a remote terminal to the virtual machine, or switch to a text console by typing Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in
as root, and run the init 3 command to disable X Windows.
6 Install additional components that are required for the NVIDIA driver.
sudo yum install gcc-c++
sudo yum install kernel-devel-$(uname -r)
sudo yum install kernel-headers-$(uname -r)
7 Add an executable flag to the NVIDIA GRID vGPU driver package.
chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-version-grid.run
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