How to remove unwanted Xen and/or Virtualization packages on RHEL5?

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Issue

  • Virtualization packages are accidentally installed during OS installation
  • While trying to remove Xen packages individually, it errors out with recursive dependencies

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Xen packages and kernel installed

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