{"id":69410,"date":"2026-04-15T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=69410"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:20:18","slug":"device-or-resource-busy-error-when-uninstalling-the-nvidia-vib-on-vmware-esxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/device-or-resource-busy-error-when-uninstalling-the-nvidia-vib-on-vmware-esxi\/","title":{"rendered":"\"Device or resource busy\" error when uninstalling the NVIDIA VIB on VMware ESXi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"device-or-resource-busy-error-when-uninstalling-nvidia-vib-01\"<\/p>\n

When attempting to remove or upgrade an NVIDIA<\/a> VIB on VMware ESXi, the operation may fail with a \"Device or resource busy<\/em>\" error.<\/p>\n

This typically occurs during an upgrade cycle, when updating the NVIDIA<\/a> driver to match the compatibility matrix after an ESXi host has been upgraded from 7.0.2 to 8.0.3<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Uninstalling the NVIDIA VIB<\/h2>\n

To identify and remove the existing NVIDIA VIB, run the following command via SSH<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

# esxcli software vib list > grep -i NVD<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Once you have identified the correct VIB to remove (NVD-VMware_ESXi_7.0.2_Driver<\/em> in the example), run the following command to delete the driver<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

# esxcli software vib remove --vibname=NVD-VMware_ESXi_7.0.2_Driver<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The operation fails with a LiveInstallationError<\/em>\u00a0where the system points out the \/tardisk\/nvd_boot.v00<\/em> cannot be removed<\/strong> because the \"Device or resource busy<\/em>\" error occurs.<\/p>\n

In the reported error, it suggests rebooting the host<\/strong> to release the device or resource.<\/p>\n

# reboot<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, even rebooting the host does not fix the issue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Fix the \"Device or resource busy\" error<\/h2>\n

When reviewing the VIBs installed on the ESXi host<\/strong>, nvdGpuMgmtDaemon<\/em> is listed as part of the NVIDIA installation.<\/p>\n

The issue occurs because the nvdGpuMgmtDeamon service must be stopped<\/strong> in order to remove the VIB. Run the following command:<\/p>\n

# \/etc\/init.d\/nvdGpuMgmtDaemon<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

After stopping this service, try to uninstall the VIB again. This time the NVIDIA VIB is removed successfully<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

You can then finalize the installation of the new NVIDIA VIB<\/strong> compatible with VMware vSphere 8.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n

# esxcli software vib install -v \/tmp\/NVD_bootbank_NVD-VMware_ESXi_8.00_Driver<\/span><\/p>\n

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Older NVIDIA versions may cause this issue when uninstalling the VIB from the ESXi host. Stopping the nvdGpuMgmtDaemon<\/em> service<\/strong> allows the VIB removal to complete successfully.<\/p>\n

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When attempting to remove or upgrade an NVIDIA VIB on VMware ESXi, the operation may fail with a \"Device or resource busy\" error. This typically occurs during an upgrade cycle, when updating the NVIDIA driver to match the compatibility matrix after an ESXi host has been upgraded from 7.0.2 to 8.0.3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","twitter_113568041_113568041":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc","service":"linkedin","timestamp":1778220643,"status":"error"},{"account":"facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720","service":"facebook","timestamp":1776236485,"status":"queued"},{"account":"twitter_113568041_113568041","service":"twitter","timestamp":1778220650,"status":"error"},{"account":"mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442","service":"mastodon","timestamp":1778220656,"status":"success"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"queued","footnotes":""},"categories":[1025,2801,2701],"tags":[3086,2046,2314,1810],"class_list":["post-69410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horizon-en","category-virtualization-en","category-vsphere-en","tag-device-or-resource-busy","tag-nvidia","tag-uninstall","tag-vib","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}