Trouble running Blender on an Azure VM

Question

I'm trying to setup a virtual machine which will run custom Blender/Python scripts for rendering out 3D scenes into images. Currently I have a Standard NC4as T4 v3 VM on Windows 10 and after downloading Blender, I am unable to open it. I'm given a message stating that Blender requires a GPU/drivers with support for OpenGL 3.3+ and then it fails to open. I've already installed the proper drivers via the NVIDIA GPU Driver extension in the Azure portal, and I know via the nvidia-smi command that they are installed properly. I've been unable to find any solutions to get it running. Does anyone have any experience getting Blender to run on an Azure VM? Any assistance or insights on where the problem is coming from or how to fix it would be really appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

@James Guerrera-Sapone
Sorry that did not resolve your issue. After further investigation and reproducing the issue I found that the NVIDIA driver that is installed for the T4 card does not include OpenGL. I was able to resolve this issue by installing the GRID Driver. After this I was able to successfully launch Blender from my NC4as T4 v3 VM.
Hope this helps! Let me know if you are still facing issues and I will do my best to assist.

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