Comment 2 for bug 1655584

I tried
systemctl stop nvidia-persistenced
nvidia-persistenced --no-persistence-mode
nvidia-smi --persistence-mode=Disabled
but none of them helped. nvidia-smi failed because it couldn't communicate with the nvidia driver.

The system was created using a raw disk in a virtual machine (VirtualBox). I then booted off the disk so it was running for real, and accepted the offered nvidia drivers. Finally, I shutdown and restarted in the VM. That is the context for the loop. The VM has no nvidia hardware, and so obviously there is no reason for the driver to load.

Ross