Xorg service is no longer required for Nvidia vGPU profiles in vSphere 7.0 U1

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

This article explains the changes to the Xorg service dependencies in ESXi 7.0 U1

 

 

 

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0.0

Resolution

As of vSphere 7.0 Update 1, Xorg is no longer required for graphics devices in vGPU mode and may not start when using them. This will not affect the assignment of vGPU profiles to virtual machines. The ESXi host is still able to interact with the cards via the Nvidia Virtual GPU Manager contained in the Nvidia VIBs. The command nvidia-smi can be used to determine if the Nvidia Virtual GPU Manager has been successfully loaded in ESXi.

Xorg is still required and must be able to start if the graphics device will be used in shared mode vSGA. vSGA is not supported on all graphics cards. A full list of vSGA supported devices can be found in the Virtual Shared Graphics Acceleration Guide.