How do I destroy a VM when I deleted the .vagrant file?

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Pickels picture Pickels · Mar 14, 2013 · Viewed 42.1k times · Source

I deleted the directory that contained the .vagrant file. When I up a new VM it's complaining about ports being in use. So how do I destroy a VM without having it's .vagrant file?

Answer

Pickels picture Pickels · Mar 14, 2013

The following VirtualBox commands might help. If poweroff doesn't work, try unregistervm.

$ VBoxManage list runningvms
$ VBoxManage controlvm <uuid> poweroff
$ VBoxManage unregistervm <uuid>

Source: https://support.cloud.engineyard.com/entries/21449637-I-deleted-Vagrantfile-vagrant-and-or-the-app-directory-before-halting-the-VM-Now-ey-local-up-errors-

Shell script to stop all running vms:

VBoxManage list runningvms | awk '{print $2;}' | xargs -I vmid VBoxManage controlvm vmid poweroff

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