Test suite not using NVIDIA pci-passthrough on VMware

[Fr3dY]

Hi,

I'd like to do some benchmarks on a virtual machine under Vmware (vSphere 6.7u1), but looks like Phoronix Test Suite is trying to use the default Video Card instead the NVIDIA connected using PCI-Passthrough.

Using 'nvtop' I see the following:

 Device 0 [Tesla V100-PCIE-16GB] PCIe GEN 3@16x RX: 0.000 kB/s TX: 0.000 kB/s
 GPU 135MHz  MEM 877MHz  TEMP  44°C FAN N/A% POW  28 / 250 W

Or, by using nvidia-smi:

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 418.30       Driver Version: 418.30       CUDA Version: 10.1     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  Tesla V100-PCIE...  Off  | 00000000:03:00.0 Off |                   0* |
| N/A   44C    P0    28W / 250W |     11MiB / 16130MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

However, Test Suite fails on CUDA tests. Here's the output when using 'diagnostics':

PTS_VERSION = 8.6.1
PTS_CORE_VERSION = 8610
PTS_RELEASE_DATE = 20190221
PTS_CODENAME = Spydeberg
PTS_IS_CLIENT = 1
PTS_IS_WEB_CLIENT =
PTS_IS_DEV_BUILD =
PTS_PHP_VERSION = 5.4.16
QUICK_START =
PTS_CORE_PATH = /root/phoronix-test-suite/pts-core/
PTS_IS_DAEMONIZED_SERVER_PROCESS = 1
PTS_USER_PATH = /var/lib/phoronix-test-suite/
PTS_CORE_STORAGE = /var/lib/phoronix-test-suite/core.pt2so
PTS_DOWNLOAD_CACHE_PATH = /var/cache/phoronix-test-suite/download-cache/
PTS_OPENBENCHMARKING_SCRATCH_PATH = /var/cache/phoronix-test-suite/openbenchmarking.org/
PTS_TEST_PROFILE_PATH = /var/lib/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/
PTS_TEST_SUITE_PATH = /var/lib/phoronix-test-suite/test-suites/
PTS_CORE_STATIC_PATH = /root/phoronix-test-suite/pts-core/static/
PTS_SHARE_PATH = /usr/share/phoronix-test-suite/
PTS_INIT_TIME = 1554119918
PTS_COMMAND_PATH = /root/phoronix-test-suite/pts-core/commands/
PHP_BIN = php
FIRST_RUN_ON_PTS_UPGRADE =
IS_FIRST_RUN_TODAY =
TIME_SINCE_LAST_RUN = 155
PTS_TEST_INSTALL_DEFAULT_PATH = /var/lib/phoronix-test-suite/installed-tests/
PTS_SAVE_RESULTS_PATH = /var/lib/phoronix-test-suite/test-results/
PTS_USER_LOCK = /var/lib/phoronix-test-suite/run-lock-tskvLA
PTS_STARTUP_TASK_PERFORMED = 1
HAS_REFRESHED_OBO_LIST = 1

Variables That Can Be Used As Result Identifiers / File Names:
VIDEO_RESOLUTION = 1176x885
VIDEO_CARD = VMware SVGA II 16GB
VIDEO_DRIVER =
OPENGL_DRIVER =
OPERATING_SYSTEM = CentOS Linux 7
PROCESSOR = Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4 (12 Cores)
MOTHERBOARD = Intel 440BX (VMW71.00V.0.B64.1801120748 BIOS)
CHIPSET = Intel 440BX/ZX/DX
KERNEL_VERSION = 4.4.172-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
COMPILER = GCC 4.8.5 20150623 + CUDA 9.2
HOSTNAME = NVIDIA

Environmental Variables (accessible via test scripts):
PTS_VERSION = 8.6.1
PTS_CODENAME = Spydeberg
PTS_DIR = /root/phoronix-test-suite/
PTS_LAUNCHER = /root/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite
PHP_BIN = php
NUM_CPU_CORES = 12
NUM_CPU_PHYSICAL_CORES = 12
NUM_CPU_NODES = 1
NUM_CPU_JOBS = 24
SYS_MEMORY = 59392
VIDEO_MEMORY = 16130
VIDEO_WIDTH = 1176
VIDEO_HEIGHT = 885
VIDEO_MONITOR_COUNT = 1
VIDEO_MONITOR_LAYOUT = CENTER
VIDEO_MONITOR_SIZES = 1176x885
OPERATING_SYSTEM = centos
OS_VERSION = 7
OS_ARCH = x86_64
OS_TYPE = Linux
THIS_RUN_TIME = 1554119918
DEBUG_REAL_HOME = /root/
DEBUG_PATH = /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/cuda-9.2/bin:/root/bin
SYSTEM_TYPE_ID = V
SYSTEM_TYPE = Virtual
TERMINAL_WIDTH = 185
C_CXX_FLAGS_DEFAULT = -O3 -march=native

Any way to 'force' test suite to use the pci-passthrough device?




Thanks and kind regards,