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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

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.

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

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.

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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