How do I remove Xen from Ubuntu?

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JREN picture JREN · Aug 12, 2013 · Viewed 15.5k times · Source

I was trying to install VM software on my Ubuntu system. Since I'm not very familiar with linux I followed a guide on the official Ubuntu site. Now I am running Ubuntu in a Xen environment, but I don't want to use Xen to make my virtual machines.

I installed Virtualbox in order to create my VM's, but Virtualbox doesn't run in a Xen environment.

I have tried googling for a way to remove Xen from my system, but I am unable to do it. This is what I've tried so far:

  • Editing /boot/grub/grub.cfg set default="Xen 4.1-amd64" to set default=1 which was recommended by a tutorial. It made my laptop start up in recovery mode and I had to generate a new grub config file which put the default back to xen.
  • Editing /boot/grub/menu.lst but I don't have any files called that on my system

user@BEL-8WF4XW1:~$ sudo find / -name menu.lst

user@BEL-8WF4XW1:~$

  • Looking through software center, but I couldn't find anything about Xen
  • The command make uninstall but I didn't use the source code.
  • I also tried to install yum and do sudo yum install kernel followed by sudo yum remove xen kernel-xen libvirt but that also didn't work.

I'm quite lost to be honest. Can anyone help me to get my Ubuntu back to how it was before I tried to follow that guide?

Answer

mp_linux picture mp_linux · Nov 8, 2016

I'm no expert but I've executed

sudo apt-get purge xen*

and it worked for me.

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