Failed to power on VM with error message "Could not initialize plugin 'libnvidia-vgx.so' for vGPU '<vGPU profile>'"

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

• Powering on VM failed with the following message:
  
  Could not initialize plugin 'libnvidia-vgx.so' for vGPU '<vGPU profile>'.
  
  
  
• vmware.log contains entries similar to the following:
  
  [timestamp] In(05) vmx - VMIOP: Initializing plugin vmiop-display
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[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: NVOS status 0x51
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: Assertion Failed at 0x25496f4f:143
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: 13 frames returned by backtrace
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: /usr/lib64/vmware/plugin/libnvidia-vgx.so(_nv009095vgpu+0x35) [0x1253e7ab5]
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: /usr/lib64/vmware/plugin/libnvidia-vgx.so(_nv009216vgpu+0x13e) [0x1253fb75e]
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: /usr/lib64/vmware/plugin/libnvidia-vgx.so(_nv007854vgpu+0x24f) [0x125496f4f]
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: /usr/lib64/vmware/plugin/libnvidia-vgx.so(+0x88056) [0x1253aa056]
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: /usr/lib64/vmware/plugin/libnvidia-vgx.so(+0x8900e) [0x1253ab00e]
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: /usr/lib64/vmware/plugin/libvmx-vmiop.so(+0x3db9) [0x125111db9]
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: /bin/vmx(+0x692229) [0xe0550229]
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: /bin/vmx(+0x32078b) [0xe01de78b]
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: /bin/vmx(+0x296833) [0xe0154833]
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: /bin/vmx(+0x2971ab) [0xe01551ab]
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: /bin/vmx(+0x28580d) [0xe014380d]
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdd) [0x12287b43d]
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: /bin/vmx(+0x2864ca) [0xe01444ca]
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: (0x0): Alloc Channel(Gpfifo) for device failed error: 0x51
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: (0x0): Failed to allocate FCE channel
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: (0x0): init_device_instance failed for inst 0 with error 2 (init frame copy engine)
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: (0x0): Initialization: init_device_instance failed error 2
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - vmiop_log: display_init failed for inst: 0
[timestamp] Er(02) vmx - VMIOP: Plugin vmiop-display initialization failed: 2
[timestamp] In(05) vmx - [msg.vmx.plugin.vmiop.vgpu.failed] Could not initialize plugin 'libnvidia-vgx.so' for vGPU '<vGPU profile name>'.
  
  

Cause

The NVIDIA plugin libnvidia-vgx.so failed during initialization and reported an error.

Resolution

Contact NVIDIA support to investigate and determine why the libnvidia-vgx.so plugin failed to initialize.