How to Install and Uninstall vmfs-tools Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 21,2024

1. Install "vmfs-tools" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install vmfs-tools on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                vmfs-tools
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "vmfs-tools" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall vmfs-tools on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                vmfs-tools
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the vmfs-tools package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: vmfs-tools
Priority: extra
Section: universe/otherosfs
Installed-Size: 267
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Mike Hommey
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.2.5-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libfuse2 (>= 2.8.1), libuuid1 (>= 2.16)
Filename: pool/universe/v/vmfs-tools/vmfs-tools_0.2.5-1_amd64.deb
Size: 116056
MD5sum: 6a9d12b2c179e399f03b5f7cb14086d6
SHA1: 0afbba3e448d488afa8b4f9bd6b35a048430d876
SHA256: d0e0b990d732b81811657bb32c44d7fe7957191904934c025fe602ddf48805d7
Description-en: Tools to access VMFS filesystems
VMFS is a clustered filesystem designed to store virtual machine disks for
VMware ESX or ESXi Server hosts. This set of tools allows to access these
filesystems from some other non ESX/ESXi host for e.g. maintenance tasks.
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Only read access is available at the moment, but write access is under
works. Multiple extents are supported.
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The VMFS can be accessed with a command line tool or mounted through a
userspace filesystem (FUSE-based).
Description-md5: 0cdea504f6c5a9da0070eeda2f011352
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu