Getting the NVIDIA driver to build on Proxmox with kernel 7.0 I wanted my RTX 2080 Ti available to LXC containers on my Proxmox host (a Dell R730xd), so I installed the NVIDIA driver on the host. It didn't work the first time. Here's what went wrong and how I fixed it. Setup: Proxmox kernel 7.0.14-23-pve , NVIDIA driver 615.78.08 (the .run installer), open (MIT/GPL) kernel module. Error 1: kernel source tree not found ERROR: Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel. Proxmox doesn't install the kernel headers by default. Install them, plus DKMS so the module gets rebuilt when the kernel updates: apt update apt install proxmox-default-headers proxmox-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential dkms Error 2: the module fails to build The second attempt failed during compilation: ERROR: The nvidia kernel module was not created. ERROR: Installation has failed. The real error was further up in /var/log/nvidia-installer.log : grep -n ...
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