VGA Passthrough with OVMF+VFIO on Ubuntu 16.04

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After many months of research and reading through various articles detailing VGA passthrough builds (such as here, here, and here), I finally decided to upgrade my machine— with PCI passthrough being a primary objective of the new build. I have never liked dual-booting, and using Windows as my primary…