Vagrant: destroy not working

Try running vagrant status first, which should list all of your VMs with their current status (running, not created, etc.)

The names of the VMs are displayed in the first column and are case sensitive.

For example, this is what the output of vagrant status looks like on my machine:

base                       not created (virtualbox)
git                        not created (virtualbox)
go                         not created (virtualbox)
dev_workstation            not created (virtualbox)
single_instance            not created (virtualbox)
metrics                    not created (virtualbox)

To completely clean VM and start from fresh - the below worked for me - basically combination of what others have said already.

1. Check VM status with vagrant locally and destroy if exists - all done inside vagrant folder - MAKE SURE you are in the correct folder!

   $ vagrant status
   $ vagrant destroy
   $ rm -rf .vagrant
   

2. Check VM status with vagrant globally and "destroy" if exists - can be done from anywhere

   $ vagrant global-status
   $ vagrant global-status --prune
   

3. Check VM status with VirtualBox's perspective and unregister VM

   $ vboxmanage list vms   
   ### note down long id, eg. c43266e6-e22b-437a-8cc1-541b7ed5c4b
   
   $ vboxmanage unregistervm <long id> --delete
   

4. Go back into appropriate vagrant folder and start VM

   $ vagrant up
   

Lets try these action in command line

• 1. Check available installed boxes by calling

     vagrant box list

• 2. Find box id

     vagrant global-status --prune

• 3. Select by id name of your box for destroying.

     vagrant destroy 1a2b3c4d

Thats all for you. Now you can destroy your vagrant box vagrant destroy xxxxxxx by this command.

It seems the item does not exist, but it appears in the list because it is present in the cache. Use vagrant global-status --prune to get rid of it.

See vagrant global-status documentation for more details.