question on stopping module running at booting

[satimis]

Hi folks,

Ubuntu 9.10 64bit
CPU - amd phenom II X4 955

I tried to stop kvm and kvm-amd modules to run at boot by adding;

blacklist kvm
blacklist kvm-amd

at the end of /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and reboot PC.

However it doesn't work.

$ ls /etc/modprobe.d/

alsa-base.conf          blacklist-firewire.conf     blacklist-oss.conf
blacklist-ath_pci.conf  blacklist-framebuffer.conf  blacklist-watchdog.conf
blacklist.conf          blacklist-modem.conf        libpisock9.conf

Please advise which file I have to edit? TIA

B.R.
satimis

[peteh]

Add it to end of blacklist.conf.

[daark.child]

Edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and blacklist the module by doing something like

blacklist MODULENAME

[satimis]

Hi daark.child and peteh,

Thanks for your advice.

I did it on Fedora 12 64bit adding following 2 lines on /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

blacklist kvm
blacklist kvm-amd

Rebooted PC. Then it worked.

However I tried the same steps on Ubuntu 9.10 64bit. It didn't work.

I have to run;
$ rmmod kvm-amd && rmmod kvm

to stop them

B.R.
satimis