hah, bingo, the default kernel package for VMs doesn't have nd_pmem or nd_btt. I had to install linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-12-generic.
Now it works: ubuntu@focal-nvdimm:~$ sudo ndctl create-namespace { "dev":"namespace1.0", "mode":"fsdax", "map":"dev", "size":"1006.00 MiB (1054.87 MB)", "uuid":"53defad5-c13c-4f3c-abbb-d9152db43c69", "sector_size":512, "align":2097152, "blockdev":"pmem1" } Thanks a lot, Dan! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1853506 Title: [MIR] ndctl To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ndctl/+bug/1853506/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs