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Blacklist nouveau and nvidiafb drivers #54

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Blacklist `nouveau` and `nvidiafb` drivers
tuommaki Jan 24, 2024
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Add note about Ubuntu specifics
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Expand Up @@ -32,10 +32,19 @@ When passing GPU to VM running unikernel, the device cannot be in use by the hos

**/etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf**
```
blacklist nouveau
blacklist nvidia
blacklist nvidiafb
blacklist nvidia-drm
```

On Ubuntu the module blacklisting doesn't necessarily work as expected. In that case [driverctl](https://gitlab.com/driverctl/driverctl) can help:
```
sudo apt install driverctl
sudo driverctl set-override 0000:01:00.0 vfio-pci
sudo driverctl set-override 0000:01:00.1 vfio-pci
```

### Load VFIO & VSOCK modules

[VFIO](https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/vfio.html) provides framework for virtual machines to utilize host machine hardware directly, allowing high performance device access.
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