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/usr/bin/nvidia-vgpu-dm

NVIDIA vGPU Device Manager lets administrators declaratively define a set of vGPU device configurations in a YAML file and apply one of them to every GPU on a node. It ships two Go binaries: nvidia-vgpu-dm, a CLI with 'apply' and 'assert' subcommands that creates or checks vGPU (mdev) devices on the host through the NVIDIA vGPU Manager, and nvidia-k8s-vgpu-dm, a Kubernetes per-node controller (DaemonSet, usually deployed by the NVIDIA GPU Operator). The controller watches the nvidia.com/vgpu.config node…

From vgpu-device-manager-fips 0.5.1-r0 (enterprise-packages), captured 2026-11-08 by running nvidia-vgpu-dm --help (exit 0). permalink

NAME:
   nvidia-vgpu-dm - Manage NVIDIA vGPU devices

USAGE:
   nvidia-vgpu-dm [global options] command [command options]

VERSION:
   v0.5.1, commit: 90553f85de8836d6baddd84ca5ff6894f38813f4

COMMANDS:
   apply    Apply changes (if necessary) for a specific vGPU device configuration from a configuration file
   assert   Assert that a specific vGPU device configuration is currently applied to the node
   help, h  Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --debug, -d    Enable debug-level logging (default: false) [$VGPU_DM_DEBUG]
   --help, -h     show help
   --version, -v  print the version
Options (3)
OptionDescriptionSource
--debug, -dEnable debug-level logging (default: false) [$VGPU_DM_DEBUG]help
--help, -hshow helphelp
--version, -vprint the versionhelp

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