TECHNICAL GUIDE
GPU & Guest Tools · GT-03

Verify STRATUM GPU in the Guest

After Guest Tools are installed, verify that the guest sees the STRATUM GPU device and can query the accelerator before testing CUDA applications.

GPU VERIFICATION

Verify the device path

Start with STRATUM GPU inventory, then confirm the PCI device and STRATUM device nodes inside the guest. These checks establish that the VM is attached to an accelerator and that Guest Tools are bound to the virtual device.

The physical accelerator can be provided elsewhere in the STRATUM Continuum; the guest consumes the assigned STRATUM GPU without needing to know where that physical device resides.

INTERFACE

Interface tour

REFERENCE 01

STRATUM GPU SMI

Run stratum-gpu-smi to confirm that the guest can query the STRATUM-assigned accelerator and see its provider, type, memory, and identity.

FIGURE 01STRATUM GPU SMI
REFERENCE 02

STRATUM GPU PCI Device

Confirm the STRATUM GPU PCI device, kernel module, and STRATUM device nodes are present in the guest. These checks verify the device-to-Guest-Tools path.

FIGURE 02STRATUM GPU PCI Device
REFERENCE 03

NVIDIA SMI With STRATUM GPU

Where the supported NVIDIA userspace utility is installed, nvidia-smi can be used as an additional NVML-facing validation of the STRATUM GPU user-mode path.

FIGURE 03NVIDIA SMI With STRATUM GPU
COMMANDS

Commands

Run these checks inside the guest. They verify the supported customer path and intentionally omit development-only library-path, mock-mode, and native-port overrides.

shell
lspci -nn | grep -i -E '3d|display|1d1e:5350'
lsmod | grep stratum_gpu
ls -l /dev/stratum-gpu*
ls -l /dev/stratum-gpuctl
stratum-gpu-query
stratum-gpu-smi
RESULT

The outcome you should see

The PCI device, STRATUM GPU control/device nodes, inventory query, and GPU status view all agree that the guest has an attached accelerator.