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Hyper-V & Nvidia cards

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I read about the issue with Hyper-V and most nvidia desktop graphics cards, in that the drivers dont work and you are forced to run the card in VGA mode. Has there been any updates to this issue?? Searching the microsoft knowledage base i just see more reports of the probelm but I'm hoping its been fixed as most problems are from 2009.

My reason is, I will be connecting my server to dual displays and would like to have anti-aliased text, aka, not run my card in VGA mode... Proper graphics drivers are a must.
 
I just posted about this. Im hoping for maybe an updated driver with the new features for hyperv
 
This it not true.

You can install the nVIDIA drivers, but it's unsupported... ...however, I've never had problems.

There are several steps you must take. The following steps apply to Windows 2008 R2 Core / Hyper-V Server R2 Core. If you are running a version prior to R2, make sure to download the desktop equivalent Vista x64 drivers, instead of the Windows 7 x64 drivers.

Here goes:

1. Download the latest copy of the Windows 7 x64 nVIDIA driver set. Uncompress them using 7-Zip or another zip program of your choice. Yes, I realize the file is an exe, but it is compressed using Zip. When you run the nVIDIA exe, it simply uncompresses to a temp location and then runs the install.

2. Once you have uncompressed all of the files, copy the root of the folder over to your hyper-V box.

3. On the hyper-V box, navigate to the directory you copied the file to, and look for the directories containing the *.inf files.

4. For any directories you find *.inf files, simply type: pnputil -i -a *.inf

If the *.inf file does not apply to your hardware, the pnputil.exe tool simply won't import the drivers. For any hardware that matches, the driver packages will be imported.

5. Once complete, reboot the system: shutdown /r /t 0


When the system comes back up, you should notice that your resolution has increased and that the driver is nVIDIA, as opposed to the default VGA driver.
 
any reason to not just run the setup.exe file from the command prompt in hyper-v? I noticed today that I was able to install my NIC driver (that was not extractable from the EXE as it was not a "zipped executable" like nvidia uses. I just ran setup.exe and the GUI opened just as it would on a normal windows install, clicked next next next and my NIC drivers were loaded and working.
 
No issues with Hyper-V and nvidia cards on multiple systems here.
 
What I had for issues on my laptop when I ran server 2008 & hyper-v was that my in game performance went through the shitter with the hyper-v role installed. I was at 40-48fps with steam games and was at 15-20 with hyper-v.

Again, win2k8, not r2.
 
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