A valid license is required to run the Vagrant VMware provider

How do I remove this idiotic error? I have uninstalled the VMware plugin, and installed Virtualbox as I don’t want to pay for a license to a personal lab environment. I have also uninstall and reinstalled vagrant multiple times but the error persists. I cannot run any commands. ‘vagrant --provider’ does not work. The only output is " A valid license is required to run the Vagrant VMware

provider. Please visit http://www.vagrantup.com to purchase

a license. Once you purchase a license, you can install it

using vagrant plugin license"

This is approaching the ridiculous… I have uninstalled VMware Fusion completely but I still get the same error message when running vagrant init or provider…

A valid license is required to run the Vagrant VMware

provider. Please visit http://www.vagrantup.com to purchase

a license. Once you purchase a license, you can install it

using vagrant plugin license.

Hey there,
you can remove all installed plugins using the vagrant plugin expunge -f command. This should remove the vmware plugin and resolve the issue.

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That did the trick! You solved hours of endless frustration and confusion. Thank you very much!