[pve-devel] [PATCH pve-nvidia-vgpu-helper v2 3/4] add pve-nvidia-vgpu-helper and Makefile to make dependency installtion more convenient

Hannes Dürr h.duerr at proxmox.com
Wed Jan 22 16:23:24 CET 2025


On 1/21/25 17:12, Hannes Dürr wrote:
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> On 1/21/25 16:36, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
>> Am 21.01.25 um 11:47 schrieb Dominik Csapak:
>>> It's probably not a bad idea to install the packages for all 
>>> installed kernel versions? (@Thomas ?)
>> Yeah, would be definitively a nice UX enhancement.
> sounds good to me, will do.

I have another suggestion and in my opinion the UX would be even better 
if you also had the opt-in to only install the headers only for the 
currently running kernel.

 > pve-nvidia-vgpu-helper --only-running-kernel

There are quite a few users who have many, sometimes old, kernels on 
their server but don't actually want headers for all of them installed.
What do you think?

>>> Not super sure about how exactly DKMS works, but i think it tries to 
>>> compile for all installed
>>> kernel versions no?
>> While I currently do not know the full semantics of DKMS, I also think
>> that it will build for all kernels that are installed, so that users can
>> boot these newer/other kernels and directly use the out-of-tree module
>> managed by DKMS.
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