Activate NVIDIA GRID Virtual Applications on your Amazon EC2 GPU-based instances

To activate the GRID Virtual Applications on GPU-based instances that have NVIDIA GPUs (NVIDIA GRID Virtual Workstation is enabled by default), you must define the product type for the driver. The process that you use depends on the operating system of your instance.

Linux instances

To activate GRID Virtual Applications on your Linux instances

1. Create the /etc/nvidia/gridd.conf file from the provided template file.

   [ec2-user ~]$ sudo cp /etc/nvidia/gridd.conf.template /etc/nvidia/gridd.conf

2. Open the /etc/nvidia/gridd.conf file in your favorite text editor.

3. Find the FeatureType line, and set it equal to 0. Then add a line with IgnoreSP=TRUE.

   FeatureType=0 IgnoreSP=TRUE

4. Save the file and exit.

5. Reboot the instance to pick up the new configuration.

   [ec2-user ~]$ sudo reboot

Windows instances

To activate GRID Virtual Applications on your Windows instances

1. Run regedit.exe to open the registry editor.

2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\GridLicensing.

3. Open the context (right-click) menu on the right pane and choose New, DWORD.

4. For Name, enter FeatureType and type Enter.

5. Open the context (right-click) menu on FeatureType and choose Modify.

6. For Value data, enter 0 for NVIDIA GRID Virtual Applications and choose OK.

7. Open the context (right-click) menu on the right pane and choose New, DWORD.

8. For Name, enter IgnoreSP and type Enter.

9. Open the context (right-click) menu on IgnoreSP and choose Modify.

10. For Value data, type 1 and choose OK.

11. Close the registry editor.