Uninstalling container-native virtualization - Container-native virtualization installation | Container-native virtualization

You can uninstall container-native virtualization by using the OpenShift Container Platform web console.

Prerequisites

You must have container-native virtualization 2.3 installed.
You must delete all virtual machines, virtual machine instances, and DataVolumes.

Attempting to uninstall container-native virtualization without deleting these objects results in failure.

To uninstall container-native virtualization, you must first delete the CNV Operator Deployment custom resource.

Prerequisites

Procedure

From the OpenShift Container Platform web console, select openshift-cnv from the Projects list.
Navigate to the Operators → Installed Operators page.
Click OpenShift Virtualization.
Click the CNV Operator Deployment tab.
Click the Options menu in the row containing the kubevirt-hyperconverged custom resource. In the expanded menu, click Delete HyperConverged Cluster.
Click Delete in the confirmation window.
Navigate to the Workloads → Pods page to verify that only the Operator Pods are running.
Open a terminal window and clean up the remaining resources by running the following command:
```
$ oc delete apiservices v1alpha3.subresources.kubevirt.io -n openshift-cnv
```

To finish uninstalling container-native virtualization, delete your catalog subscription.

Prerequisites

Procedure

You can now delete the openshift-cnv namespace.

You can delete a namespace by using the OpenShift Container Platform web console.

If you do not have permissions to delete the namespace, the Delete Namespace option is not available.

Procedure

Navigate to Administration → Namespaces.
Locate the namespace that you want to delete in the list of namespaces.
On the far right side of the namespace listing, select Delete Namespace from the Options menu .
When the Delete Namespace pane opens, enter the name of the namespace that you want to delete in the field.
Click Delete.