Install Nvidia drivers on Proxmox.md

How to Install Nvidia Drivers on Proxmox

1. Your /etc/apt/sources.list should look like something like this:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian [bullseye, bookworm, etc] main contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian [bullseye, bookworm, etc]-updates main contrib non-free

# security updates
deb http://security.debian.org [bullseye, bookworm, etc]-security main contrib

# PVE pve-no-subscription repository provided by proxmox.com,
# NOT recommended for production use
deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve [bullseye, bookworm, etc] pve-no-subscription

Don't blindly replace your /etc/apt/sources.list with the above contents!!

2. apt update
3. apt upgrade
4. apt install pve-headers
5. apt install libnvidia-cfg1 nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-driver
6. Reboot
7. nvidia-smi should print something like this:

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 470.141.03   Driver Version: 470.141.03   CUDA Version: 11.4     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA RTX A4000    On   | 00000000:42:00.0 Off |                  Off |
| 41%   44C    P8     7W / 140W |      1MiB / 16117MiB |      0%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

I am having a different issue currently. I ran the guide and used the two ftp repos in the comment by seeker above, which allowed installation. I rebooted and now this is what I'm getting. I re-ran all the commands to show their results:

root@pve:~# apt update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease                                     
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease                             
Hit:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease                           
Hit:5 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve bookworm InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
root@pve:~# apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

root@pve:~# apt install pve-headers
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
pve-headers is already the newest version (8.3.0).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

root@pve:~# apt install libnvidia-cfg1 nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-driver
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
libnvidia-cfg1 is already the newest version (535.183.01-1~deb12u1).
nvidia-kernel-source is already the newest version (535.183.01-1~deb12u1).
nvidia-kernel-common is already the newest version (20220217+3~deb12u1).
nvidia-driver is already the newest version (535.183.01-1~deb12u1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

root@pve:~# nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

I am also having the same problem.

I am also having the same problem.

I decided to reinstall Proxmox in addition to other reasons, and I followed a different guide for this: https://gist.github.com/egg82/90164a31db6b71d36fa4f4056bbee2eb#containerlxc