How to disable the virtualized graphic adapter on VMware ESXi? - vmware

I'm struggling to disable the VMware SVGA II Adapter in a VM created in VMware ESXi 8.0, where I would like to use only an Nvidia Quadro GPU, provisioned as a passthrough PCI device.
I successfully disable the nouveau driver, and install the nvidia one, but some applications are still using the SVGA as is the first entry ad graphic adapter:
lspci | grep -E "VGA|3D"
00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL [Quadro P620] (rev a1)
The adapter is still present, even if I've set Host > Management > Advanced Settings > VMkernel.Boot.vga = False
I've even tried to disable the graphic adapter also in the OS, without any success, I'm running Rocky Linux 9.1, and following the same path used to disable nouveau din't works disabling vmwgfx which I belive to be the module related to the VMware SVGA
lspci -vs 00:0f | grep modules
Kernel modules: vmwgfx
Any Idea on how to disable on ESXi VM setting or in the OS?
Thanks!

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