Uninstall the VirtualBox guest addition on CentOS 7?

Question

I'm trying to uninstall the VirtualBox guest addition for a CentOS virtual machine.

How do I do so?

Solution

Open a terminal and enter the following commands:

cd /media

cd VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.12_77218

sudo sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run uninstall

This should uninstall vbox guest-additions

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Comments

[Hazman Firmanshah]

Thank you sir for correcting me, I will try to improve my writing.

[Gian Gomen]

In adittion, to direclty open the terminal in the location where GuestAdittion is installed, just right click on the folder located in media/username/ghestadittion and select 'Open in Terminal'. Then just run 'sudo sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run uninstall'

[daya]

@Gian Gomen Sure :)

[Jonathan]

Unfortunately, this solution does not work if the host system is Windows 10 because VBoxLinuxAdditions is not present.

[daya]

@Jonathan Host OS doesn't really matter here, VBoxLinuxAdditions will be present in /media only when you click on Devices > Insert Guest Additions Image

[Samir]

@GianGomen that's not an installation path. That's a mount point for removable media. What you describe is how to open the the /media path in Terminal from the file manager. This is an alternative to having to open the Terminal first and then do cd /media.

[Samir]

@Jonathan that statement is illogical. The VBoxLinuxAdditions.run is a Linux executable and will be present on the Guest Additions ISO file which you have to insert for the Linux guest system to see and read it. The host system is irrelevant, it can be Linux or Windows. And of course, VBoxLinuxAdditions.run will not run on a Windows guest system if that's what you imply, as it is a Linux executable and not a Windows executable.

[Samir]

@daya correct! It will be present only after inserting the ISO file on which it is contained, and as I said already, it's meant to be consumed by a Linux guest system, so the guest system is what matters, host system is irrelevant.

[Samir]

Replace the /media with /run if you're on Fedora 31. Also, uninstall is not a valid option. Where did you get that from? The linked blog post? Take note that it's "Published April 26, 2012". I did this today using Guest Additions ISO of VirtualBox 6.0.10 and when you run sudo sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run (with or without uninstall because that's not an option) you will get a long text warning you of existing Guest Additions and telling you to uninstall it using the uninstall procedure of the operating system which on Fedora is rpm -e virtualbox-guest-additions-6.0.12-1.fc31.x86_64.

[Samir]

@Jonathan this is why I know that having Windows as the host is irrelevant. I did this today with Windows 10 as host and Fedora 31 as guest system.