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Remove Xen Tools from a VM

Complete the following steps:

  1. Create a snapshot of the working VM if possible.
  2. Use autoruns64 to disable all non-Microsoft and Citrix/Xen processes.
  3. Reboot the VM.
  4. Uninstall XenTools, guest agent, drivers and all individual drivers msi through Add/Remove programs. (guest agent first, then PV tools, then each individual driver msi in any order).
  5. Remove all Xen drivers using autoruns64.
  6. Remove xenfilt from the upperfilters registry entries if any exist.
  7. Reboot the VM

Note: Check all of them. Example o HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class{4d36e96a-e325-11ce-bfc1-00802be10318 o HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class{4d36e97d-e325-11ce-bfc1-00802be10318 o HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class{…

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