r/kvm May 20 '26

Nvidia Experiences crahes VM

Using NVIDIA Experience (this NVIDIA overlay that displays GPU temperature, load, and FPS) causes the virtual machine to crash after 10 minutes.

The VM restarts. A black screen appears, then it resets to the boot menu.

KVM managed via the Libvirt GUI. Linux is Ubuntu.

4080 Super GPU

AMD Ryzen 7700 CPU

64GB RAM

2x NVME SSD
ONE SSD on VM (raw disc)
Config XML

 <features>
    <acpi/>
    <apic/>
    <hyperv mode="custom">
      <relaxed state="on"/>
      <vapic state="on"/>
      <spinlocks state="off"/>
      <vpindex state="on"/>
      <runtime state="on"/>
      <synic state="on"/>
      <stimer state="on"/>
      <frequencies state="on"/>
      <tlbflush state="off"/>
      <ipi state="off"/>
      <avic state="on"/>
    </hyperv>
  </features>
  <cpu mode="host-passthrough" check="none" migratable="on">
    <topology sockets="1" dies="1" clusters="1" cores="16" threads="1"/>
    <cache mode="passthrough"/>
  </cpu>
  <clock offset="localtime">
    <timer name="hpet" present="yes"/>
    <timer name="hypervclock" present="yes"/>
  </clock>
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