Using cloud vGPUs
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This guide describes how to allocate vGPU resources to a virtual machine (VM), installing the necessary drivers and checking whether the vGPU can be used.
Supported flavors
To use a GPU within a VM, the instance needs to be deployed on one of the flavors listed below. The GPU will be available to the operating system via the PCI bus.
- vgpu1-c18-56gb
Preparation of a VM running CentOS7
Once the VM is available, make sure to update the OS to the latest available software, including the kernel and reboot the VM to have the latest kernel running.
[root@test centos]# yum -y update && reboot
Since the proprietary nvidia drivers need to be compiled against the running kernel, the package dkms is required from the EPEL Repository