Install NVIDIA Drivers in XEN Kernel

Install NVIDIA Drivers in XEN Kernel

Release:

RedHat Enterprise Linux

Problem:

Need to install Nvidia drivers in XEN Kernel

Solution:

1)Boot the Server to Runlevel 3

# init 3

2)Now copy the Nvidia driver to /tmp directory

# cp /mnt/NVIDIA-Linux-xxx-pkg2.run /tmp

3)Now extract the bin file and add modify to use the XEN kernel

           

# cd /tmp

# ./NVIDIA-Linux-xxx-pkg2.run extract-only

# cd  NVIDIA-Linux-xxx-pkg2/usr/src/nv

# IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE=y make SYSSRC=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build module

Note: Will get lot of Warnings, but end with NVIDIA: left KBUILD

4)Now load the new driver to the xen kernel library

# cp -i nvidia.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia

# depmod -a

# modprobe nvidia

5)Now check with lsmod weather nvidia driver is loaded or not

# lsmod | grep nvidia

6)Reboot the server and boot the server with nonxen kernel

# shutdown -r now

7)Now install the nvidia driver

# cd /tmp

# sh  NVIDIA-Linux-xxx-pkg2.run

8)Allow system to rewrite the “xorg.conf” file

9)Now reboot the server and boot to the xen kernel and check.