{"id":1492,"date":"2017-03-25T05:19:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T05:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macremover.com\/uninstallguides\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2017-03-25T05:19:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T05:19:23","slug":"remove-virtualbox-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macremover.com\/uninstallguides\/2017\/03\/25\/remove-virtualbox-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Remove VirtualBox on macOS and Mac OS X?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1493\" src=\"https:\/\/macremover.com\/uninstallguides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/virtualbox-1024x576.png\" alt=\"remove virtualbox\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macremover.com\/uninstallguides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/virtualbox-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/macremover.com\/uninstallguides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/virtualbox-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/macremover.com\/uninstallguides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/virtualbox-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/macremover.com\/uninstallguides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/virtualbox.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This removal guide is for the latest version of VirtualBox for Mac. To completely remove VirtualBox, we have done much technical analysis on it. If you want to remove VirtualBox manually, you need to know the following installation information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/macremover.com\/download-install.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/macremover.com\/uninstallguides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Download-MacRemover.png\" alt=\"Download MacRemover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>1&gt; Information of VirtualBox installer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Format: DMG<\/li>\n<li>Size: 89.86 MB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following is the information about files, folders and processes after VirtualBox is installed. With this information in hand we can now manually uninstall VirtualBox completely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2&gt; Basic information of the app:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Size: 177.9 MB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3&gt; Add-on software:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BoxVM.app<\/li>\n<li>vmstarter.app<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>4&gt; Process information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>4.1 Main process:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VirtualBox<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>4.2 Associated process:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BoxVM<\/li>\n<li>vmstarter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>5&gt; Folders:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VirtualBox<\/li>\n<li>vboxapi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>6&gt; Files:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>org.virtualbox.startup.plist<\/li>\n<li>vboxdrv<\/li>\n<li>vboxdrvu<\/li>\n<li>vboxnetctl<\/li>\n<li>VBoxAutostart<\/li>\n<li>VBoxBalloonCtrl<\/li>\n<li>VBoxBugReport<\/li>\n<li>VBoxDTrace<\/li>\n<li>VBoxHeadless<\/li>\n<li>VBoxManage<\/li>\n<li>VBoxVRDP<\/li>\n<li>VirtualBox<\/li>\n<li>vbox-img<\/li>\n<li>vboxwebsrv<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>7&gt; Framework\/Extensions\/XPC\/Plugins<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TodayExtension.appex<\/li>\n<li>VisualizerService.xpc<\/li>\n<li>VBoxDrv.kext<\/li>\n<li>VBoxNetAdp.kext<\/li>\n<li>VBoxUSB.kext<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Simply dragging VirtualBox to Trash cannot uninstall it completely to free disk space on Mac OS but leave a lot of remnant files.<\/p>\n<h2>How to manually remove VirtualBox completely?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>8.1&gt; Start Activity Monitor. Select the process name &#8220;VirtualBox&#8221; and hit the &#8220;Force Quit&#8221; button.<\/li>\n<li>8.2&gt; Open Applications folder. Find &#8220;VirtualBox&#8221; and drag it to Trash.<\/li>\n<li>8.3&gt; Open Finder or Spotlight. Search for VirtualBox files and folders and delete them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How to automaticlly remove VirtualBox ?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/macremover.com\/download-install.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/macremover.com\/uninstallguides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Download-MacRemover.png\" alt=\"Download MacRemover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9.1&gt; Install and Start MacRemover<\/li>\n<li>9.2&gt; Launch the MacRemover, highlight the icon of VirtualBox and then click \u201cRun Analysis\u201d, which will scan out all the traces of the unwanted application automatically.<\/li>\n<li>9.3&gt; Click on the \u201cComplete Uninstall\u201d button and then choose \u201cYES\u201d to confirm your operation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Watch the video: How to remove VirtualBox<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Remove VirtualBox on macOS and Mac OS X?\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ad5QpNag1Zk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This removal guide is for the latest version of VirtualBox for Mac. To completely remove VirtualBox, we have done much technical analysis on it. If you want to remove VirtualBox manually, you need to know the following installation information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[437,438,436],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-apps","tag-remove-virtualbox","tag-uninstall-virtualbox","tag-virtualbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macremover.com\/uninstallguides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macremover.com\/uninstallguides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macremover.com\/uninstallguides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macremover.com\/uninstallguides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macremover.com\/uninstallguides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/macremover.com\/uninstallguides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/macremover.com\/uninstallguides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macremover.com\/uninstallguides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macremover.com\/uninstallguides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macremover.com\/uninstallguides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}