How to fix "VirtualBox Interface has active connections" error in Windows?

Question

Windows 10 is displaying a VirtualBox Interface has active connections error message when shutting down after using Docker Quickstart Terminal on Virtual Box.

I tried to fix this by typing exit to close the terminal.

How can I smoothly close the terminal and get rid of the error message?

Answer 1

I came here because the title of this topic does not mention Docker. I had the same problem when using the application BlueStacks in Windows 10, without Docker. Windows did not shut down (or took a long time to do so) because 'VirtualBox still has active connections'. I'd like to share my solution here, using BlueStacks as just an example. I solved this by creating a task in task manager that runs a script on shutdown. The script kills the VirtualBox process, which is perfectly safe. Creating such a task is described here: https://superuser.com/questions/165142/using-task-scheduler-to-run-a-task-before-shutdown The script for killing a process: wmic process where "name='BstkSVC.exe'" delete

Maybe this helps anyone who came here and is not using a container. Thanks.

Answer 2

Using the bellow commands should fix it:

docker-machine stop
exit

Answer 3

I was also fed of this problem but finally got a solution. Just open the Task Manager then check for the Bluestacks Virtual Interface . Right click on it and click End Task. I'm assuming that this is the problem due to the Bluestacks installed on your computer.