Unfortunately I still get a kernel panic when booting around the place where kvm would start.
I'll explore some more and leave the actual debugging for another forum post (if I can't figure it out myself.)
]]>Edit: the module will still be put in your initramfs, it just won't get loaded.
Can I ensure that it will load at boot lest my system actually need it?
You mean if your system actually needs it? I can't think of any situation where it would be needed at boot. You'll still be able to load it manually.
]]>Now according to this post if the module I'm trying to blacklist is loaded as a part of initramfs then I can't blacklist them as I normally would. Indeed, running `mkinitcpio -M` lists "kvm_intel" as an included module.
My question then is how do I remove "kvm_intel" with the certainty that I won't break my system? Can I ensure that it will load at boot lest my system actually need it? Because virtualization is disabled in the bios, is KVM not even doing anything anyway?
Thanks
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