And to answer my own question, what I did to get it working is (in the VM):
- disable the Microsoft Display Adapter
- install the NVIDIA drivers version 
354.56_grid_kepler_win8_win7_64bit_international

Then, after the reboot the VM came back with a NVIDIA GRID card as expected.

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nux!" <n...@li.nux.ro>
> To: "dev" <dev@cloudstack.apache.org>
> Cc: "Cloudstack Users List" <us...@cloudstack.apache.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 February, 2016 20:17:23
> Subject: Nvidia GRID vGPUs not detected by VMs

> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone played with the GRID vGPUs from Nvidia?
> I got it working at some point in the recent past, but not sure what has
> happened in the meanwhile, although Cloudstack allocated the vGPU correctly
> (checked XenCenter), Windows 8.1 VM will not "see it"; driver installations
> fails as well since the correct GPU is not detected.
> 
> Anyone got a clue what voodoo must be invoked?
> The XenServer is up to date and licensed as Enterprise.
> 
> XenCenter shows me the GPU is nicely sliced between the VMs that use the
> feature, confirmed by the Properties section of the said VMs; vGPUs are
> allocated to the, yet Windows only shows a "Microsoft Display Adapter" in
> Device Manager.
> 
> Oddly nvidia-smi should be showing me some vGPUs are in use, which does not 
> seem
> to be the case..
> 
> nvidia-smi
> Tue Feb 23 20:09:19 2016
> +------------------------------------------------------+
>| NVIDIA-SMI 352.70     Driver Version: 352.70         |
>|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
>| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
>| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
>|===============================+======================+======================|
>|   0  GRID K2             On   | 0000:05:00.0     Off |                  Off |
>| N/A   35C    P8    28W / 117W |    426MiB /  4095MiB |      0%      Default |
> +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
>|   1  GRID K2             On   | 0000:06:00.0     Off |                  Off |
>| N/A   35C    P8    51W / 117W |    906MiB /  4095MiB |      0%      Default |
> +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
>                                                                               
> +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
>|  GPU       PID  Type  Process name                               Usage      |
>|=============================================================================|
>|  No running processes found                                                 |
> +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> 
> Nothing helpful in the logs.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Cheers
> 
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> 
> Nux!
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