Uninstall Guest Additions

[Seeed]

Hi there!
Is there a way to properly uninstall the Virtualbox Guest Additions?
Im running Ubuntu Gutsy.
I've already tried

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./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run uninstall

but it seems like there's no uninstall function. It gave me this message :

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The option uninstall is not known. You can use any of the following options:
all           -- install all components of the Guest Additions
  kernel-module -- only install the core components in the Linux kernel
  vfs-module    -- install the shared folder component
  timesync      -- install the time synchronisation component
  x11           -- install guest drivers for the X Window System

Is there a uninstall-script or some other way to uninstall the Guest Additions in Linux?
Thanks in advance!
Seeed

[eiffel56]

Hello,

the VirtualBox Guest Additions installation script does not provide that functio at the moment. But you can deactivate the additions. Just be sure that all vboxadd* modules will not be loaded during startup, and remove vboxvideo and vboxmouse from your X configuration.

[riobard]

could someone write a script to do this? I cannot figure out what other stuff to remove ... like /dev/vboxadd??

[TerryE]

On my ubuntu installs the only vbox files relate to VBox. You need to check this on your system but almost certainly you could boot into init 1 mode and do

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PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin
tar -czf /home/<<youraccount>>/vboxBackup.tgz `find / -name "*[Vv][Bb]ox*"`
find / -name "*[Vv][Bb]ox*` -exec rm {} \;

After a week or so when you are convinced that you not removed anything that you didn't want to then you could always trash the tarBall.

[Sasquatch]

This topic does not belong here, this is Linux Host, not Linux Guest. There is also an other topic going in the Linux Guest forum with the same issue: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=7839
Please continue there.

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