{"id":2381,"date":"2016-04-03T12:15:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T19:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2016-04-03T12:15:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T19:15:16","slug":"removing-open-vm-tools-and-virtualbox-components-from-lubuntu-linux-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2016\/04\/removing-open-vm-tools-and-virtualbox-components-from-lubuntu-linux-guest\/","title":{"rendered":"Removing Open VM Tools and VirtualBox Components from Lubuntu (Linux) Guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After moving a Lubuntu virtual machine from VirtualBox to VMware Workstation and installing VMware Tools, I needed to clean out an old installation of Open-VM-Tools (OVT) and VirtualBox Guest Additions. Here are the steps I followed:<\/p>\n<p>List installed dkms packages:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"bash\">dkms status<\/pre>\n<p>Remove open-vm-tools and vboxguest that were listed by the previous command (note that you&#8217;ll need to provide the corresponding version numbers):<\/p>\n<pre class=\"bash\">sudo dkms remove open-vm-tools\/9.10.2 --all\nsudo dkms remove vboxguest\/5.0.2 --all<\/pre>\n<p>List openbox related tools (note that this will list anything with &#8216;open&#8217; in the title, you only want open-vm related items):<\/p>\n<pre class=\"bash\">dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall | grep -i open<\/pre>\n<p>Remove open-vm-tools:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"bash\">sudo apt-get remove open-vm-tools-dkms<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After moving a Lubuntu virtual machine from VirtualBox to VMware Workstation and installing VMware Tools, I needed to clean out an old installation of Open-VM-Tools (OVT) and VirtualBox Guest Additions. Here are the steps I followed: List installed dkms packages: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2016\/04\/removing-open-vm-tools-and-virtualbox-components-from-lubuntu-linux-guest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions\/2384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}