On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:06:40AM +0000, Bromberger, James wrote: > The Debian AMIs are not yet blessed for G2. They would at this stage > require the nvidia drivers at this stage, and as this would conflict > with the Debian Free Software Gidelines, I have not (yet) produced a > Debian + NVidia AMI. I am hoping that Nouveau will be blessed for > use on this instance type in a few weeks, and at that stage I'll > apply for the AMI to be approved for this instance type.
Thanks for looking into this. I do not believe that the nvidia drivers are the issue. There aren't any nvidia drivers on the ubuntu HVM AMI, as far as I can tell. I had to download them from nvidia's site and compile/install them. I even had to download the kernel sources to compile the drm module which the latest nvidia driver (331.49) requires and which isn't included in the AMI, a la <https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/547588/> Here's what I see on a freshly booted Ubuntu 12.04 HVM AMI: ubuntu@ip-10-138-47-161:~$ lsmod Module Size Used by isofs 40257 0 psmouse 97519 0 fb_sys_fops 12703 0 sysimgblt 12806 0 sysfillrect 12901 0 serio_raw 13211 0 syscopyarea 12633 0 acpiphp 24231 0 floppy 70207 0 ubuntu@ip-10-138-47-161:~$ find /lib/modules/3.2.0-54-virtual/kernel/drivers/video/ -name *.ko /lib/modules/3.2.0-54-virtual/kernel/drivers/video/sysimgblt.ko /lib/modules/3.2.0-54-virtual/kernel/drivers/video/cirrusfb.ko /lib/modules/3.2.0-54-virtual/kernel/drivers/video/xen-fbfront.ko /lib/modules/3.2.0-54-virtual/kernel/drivers/video/vga16fb.ko /lib/modules/3.2.0-54-virtual/kernel/drivers/video/vgastate.ko /lib/modules/3.2.0-54-virtual/kernel/drivers/video/vesafb.ko /lib/modules/3.2.0-54-virtual/kernel/drivers/video/sysfillrect.ko /lib/modules/3.2.0-54-virtual/kernel/drivers/video/fb_sys_fops.ko /lib/modules/3.2.0-54-virtual/kernel/drivers/video/syscopyarea.ko /lib/modules/3.2.0-54-virtual/kernel/drivers/video/output.ko ubuntu@ip-10-138-47-161:~$ find /lib/modules/3.2.0-54-virtual/kernel/drivers/ -name '*drm*' -o -name '*nvidia*' ubuntu@ip-10-138-47-161:~$ On a side note, I just tried launching the debian 7.4 HVM AMI on several different instance types for comparison, but I haven't had much success: 1. I was not able to get a system log to retrieve the host ssh public key, even 20 minutes or more after launch. I tried this in both us-east-1 and eu-west-1. 2. I blindly accepted the host fingerprint but was denied access when logging in as user admin with the configured keypair. > There are other issues that I have seen with the Debian AMI on the > g1 instance - I am trying to find some time for me to look deeper > into this (probably next week). If there are "other issues," I infer from the lack of any other explanation that they must be relevant. Can you elaborate, please? > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Aryeh Leib Taurog [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Thursday, 20 February 2014 6:39 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: GPU instance with debian HVM AMI? > > > > I would like to launch GPU instances with the debian HVM AMI: > > debian-wheezy-amd64-hvm-2014-02-08-ebs - ami-9f675df6 > > > > It doesn't allow me to do this. Apparently only certain AMIs are supported. > > <http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using_cluster_co > > mputing.html> > > > > I posted an inquiry about this on the EC2 forums. > > <https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=146515>. > > > > I received the following response: > > > > > I have investigated the issue in regards to the AMI - ami-9f675df6 and > > > unfortunately it would appear the instance type of g2.2xlarge is not > > > supported by this particular image. For the AMI itself it may be > > > lacking drivers and/or internal support for the g2.2xlarge instance type. > > > > > > I have however been able to successfully launch the same AMI using a > > > variety of other instance types such as C3, M3 etc. > > > > > > This is not something we can simply 'enable', it is a restriction of > > > the particular AMI itself. I would recommend either selecting a > > > difference Instance type during the provisioning or selecting a > > > different AMI that provides the features you are looking for. > > > > Can anyone shed any light on this? Could there be some missing > > configuration which is required for PCI passthrough? The Xen wiki indicates > > otherwise: > > > > > HVM guests require no special configuration for the guest kernel, as > > > all accesses are emulated and virtualized by the IOMMU hardware. > > <http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_PCI_Passthrough#Guest_configuration> > > > > Thanks, > > Aryeh Leib Taurog > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [email protected] > > Archive: > > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
