Uninstalling intel HAXM on Mac (El Capitan)

Question

I ran into an error after installing VMware Fusion on my mac, that it couldn't find /dev/vmmon. After some digging, I've learned that there are only so many available character devices, and that other software I have has consumed them.

Since I actively use Viscosity and Virtualbox (for the time being), the only other one that I could find I had was Intel HAXM driver.

Instructions online suggest to run a script to uninstall it, however that script did not exist on my laptop.

I unloaded the driver with the command:

sudo kextunload -b com.intel.kext.intelhaxm

I wanted to determine if there is anything else I need to do, will this driver attempt to reload during boot?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The Intel HAXM docs show that as of 2018, there is an uninstall script: sudo /Library/Extensions/intelhaxm.kext/Contents/Resources/uninstall.sh

Answer 2

I had the same issue, Tim Potter's solution fixed my issue ,

sudo kextunload -b com.intel.kext.intelhaxm

Thanks