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NVIDIA back in 2014, driver version 337.88 installed a feature that checked if the driver was being installed on an OS within a virtual environment. Still included in the latest drivers today while doing this check it looks at which GPU is being used and if it's not on the official support list for use in a VM the driver will refuse to install and Device Manager will report Error 43. There are workarounds for this. Any that have been known to work are listed below:
==== Obfuscate the VM Hypervisor (Edit Libvirt) ====
One option is to try and make it unclear to the host that it's running in a VM. By doing this the checks the NVIDIA Driver performs during installation don't regester that it's within a virtual enviroment and allow the driver to install. We can achieve this by making some tweaks to the .XML file:
<syntaxhighlight lang=text>
