Can't Get Clean Vagrant Box "Remove" or "Destroy"

Question

I'm using Vagrant 1.8.1 on Windows 10. When trying to remove or destroy a box, I got these contradictory results:

baria@DESKTOP-057K4L5 /c/repos/hub/vtc/linphone-windows-dependencies
$ vagrant box list
hashicorp/precise64  (virtualbox, 1.1.0)
windows_2012_r2_core (virtualbox, 0)

baria@DESKTOP-057K4L5 /c/repos/hub/vtc/linphone-windows-dependencies
$ vagrant box remove windows_2012_r2_core
Box 'windows_2012_r2_core' (v0) with provider 'virtualbox' appears
to still be in use by at least one Vagrant environment. Removing
the box could corrupt the environment. We recommend destroying
these environments first:

vagrant-windows-2012-r2-core (ID: 00d3488f41fa40998bfe16ada2ebfd31)

Are you sure you want to remove this box? [y/N] N

baria@DESKTOP-057K4L5 /c/repos/hub/vtc/linphone-windows-dependencies
$ vagrant destroy windows_2012_r2_core
The machine with the name 'windows_2012_r2_core' was not found configured for
this Vagrant environment.

I've googled for an explanation of what a "Vagrant environment" is, and found nothing. So I don't know how to "destroy an environment".

Even so, I would expect the destroy command to acknowledge the existence of my windows_2012_r2_core box, given that the list and remove commands acknowledge its existence.

What is going on here? How do I cleanly get rid of this box, without warnings or errors?

Answer 1

you can just destroy the VM that is referenced vagrant destroy 00d3488f41fa40998bfe16ada2ebfd31 will destroy the VM that is using this box and then you'll be able to remove the box.

As @Brandon Davis mention, you can run vagrant global-status to see the list of created vagrant VM (from vagrant 1.6+) and you see which VM is 00d3488f41fa40998bfe16ada2ebfd31

Answer 2

You should remove the invalid entries from the list.

vagrant global-status --prune

See here for more information regarding the command.