nvidia-gridd not available with built packages

[traylenator]

Trying to use the method of
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/streamlining-nvidia-driver-deployment-on-rhel-8-with-modularity-streams/

to use the pre-compiled packages with a virtual GPU.

that requires that nvidia-gridd[1] is available and running but this seems to normally be generated by
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-470.63.01-grid.run in the non rpm world.

Should the nvidia-gridd service be included in the release?

[1] https://docs.nvidia.com/grid/4.3/grid-licensing-user-guide/index.html#licensing-grid-vgpu-linux

Details:

CentOS Stream 8

• 4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5.x86_64

nvidia-modprobe-495.29.05-1.el8.x86_64
nvidia-settings-495.29.05-1.el8.x86_64
nvidia-driver-NVML-495.29.05-1.el8.x86_64
nvidia-driver-cuda-495.29.05-1.el8.x86_64
nvidia-libXNVCtrl-devel-495.29.05-1.el8.x86_64
nvidia-driver-cuda-libs-495.29.05-1.el8.x86_64
nvidia-libXNVCtrl-495.29.05-1.el8.x86_64
nvidia-driver-NvFBCOpenGL-495.29.05-1.el8.x86_64
nvidia-driver-devel-495.29.05-1.el8.x86_64
nvidia-driver-495.29.05-1.el8.x86_64
nvidia-persistenced-495.29.05-1.el8.x86_64
dnf-plugin-nvidia-2.0-1.el8.noarch
nvidia-driver-libs-495.29.05-1.el8.x86_64
nvidia-xconfig-495.29.05-1.el8.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-495.29.05-4.18.0-348.7.1-495.29.05-3.el8_5.x86_64
nvidia-kmod-common-495.29.05-1.el8.noarch

[kmittman]

Hi @traylenator
The NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-${driver}-grid.run is behind a "paywall" but it sounds like you are already aware of that. The yum-packaging-precompiled git repo is specifically for generating kmod-nvidia-${driver}-${kernel}*.rpm packages.

Here is a guide and screencast in the yum-packaging-nvidia-driver git repo, so moving this issue there.

[kmittman]

It looks like the GRID sub-package nvidia-grid-utils is present for RHEL7 .spec but not for RHEL8 .spec.

I will try to find the time to add those changes to the RHEL8 .spec file too.

[traylenator]

Do I understand correct that the packages as released then are not suitable for vGPUs I'd have to rebuild with the grid.run variant of the tar ball.