[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]

On 1/22/25 17:04, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> Am 22.01.25 um 16:23 schrieb Hannes Dürr:
>> On 1/21/25 17:12, Hannes Dürr wrote:
>>> 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?
> FWIW: running and newer kernels could be a good heuristic to cover
> most use cases.
>
> But: did you test how DKMS handles copes with (older/other) kernels
> without any headers available?
If you use the script NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-525.105.14-vgpu-kvm.run to
install the kernel module, you will be asked whether it should also be
initialised directly with dkms. With this option there are no problems
if the headers are only available for the currently running kernel.