[Solved] Update optical disk selector in VirtualBox

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[Solved] Update optical disk selector in VirtualBox

Post by Goldbird »

Hello Community members, :)

Does anybody know how to remove obsolete ISO files with yellow triangles from the optical disk selector in VirtualBox ?
They're not bothersome, but the list goes on and it's ... ugly.

Thanks for your help.
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Re: Update optical disk selector in VirtualBox

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Goldbird wrote:optical disk selector
If by this you mean the Virtual Media Manager, you can select the old ISO, then if the Release toolbar button is highlighted, click it, then click Remove.
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Re: Update optical disk selector in VirtualBox

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Hello, :)
If by this you mean the Virtual Media Manager, you can select the old ISO, then if the Release toolbar button is highlighted, click it, then click Remove.
My problem is that the Release toolbar button is not highlighted. :(
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Re: Update optical disk selector in VirtualBox

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Ok, that only means that no guests are using that ISO. Click Remove.
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Hello,

I think my first explanation was not clear enough.

It used to work before.

But with my host on W10, it doesn't work anymore.
Remove option is not available for pictures with a yellow triangle, so they keep on accumulating and I cannot remove them.

Thanks for your help.
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Post by Goldbird »

Hello,

I got the answer from Nik on Oracle Community, as I'm a new member and posted there coming on VirtualBox end user forum.

So, to remove useless virtual disks, just proceed this way
Nik wrote:Start VirtualBox.
FIle -> Virtual Media Manager
Select Optical Disks
Right button on required media.
You can Remove this media from list.
Thanks to Nik. :)

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Re: [Solved] Update optical disk selector in VirtualBox

Post by BillG »

And how is that different from the method scottgus1 gave you?
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Hello,

It is not different, but I did not know how to access to Virtual Media Manager and Nik picture helped me to do it.

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Re: [Solved] Update optical disk selector in VirtualBox

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BillG wrote:And how is that different from the method scottgus1 gave you?
I know it's 2 years later, but I had to call this out. It was different because the original answer acknowledged that the OP was in a different screen, but made no attempt to redirect the OP to the correct location. Instead of saying "You can't do it there, you need to be in, Virtual Media Manager" the response made it sound like the two were the same thing. I'm a technical user and am more familiar with VMWare Workstation so I came here with the same question and that original answer confused me too until I read the OP's follow up (thanks for that btw). So the difference between the solution the OP posted and the first answer the OP received is the OPs answer was complete whereas the first answer the OP received was not.
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Re: [Solved] Update optical disk selector in VirtualBox

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hypercoyote wrote:the first answer the OP received was not.
This is because the OP's first question was not complete.
Goldbird wrote: how to remove obsolete ISO files with yellow triangles from the optical disk selector in VirtualBox ?
What "optical disk selector" was that? There's some 4-ish places that one can select an optical disk for a VM: Clicking the "Optical Drive" in the VM's Storage pane, In the dropdown under the CD icon when the VM's CD drive is selected, In the VM window's Devices menu, In the Virtual Media Manager, and perhaps a couple more places.

The only one that I know of where there are little yellow triangles is in the Virtual Media Manager, and since the OP can see the triangles, they're already in the Virtual Media Manager, so all they need to do is select/release/remove. So my answer was complete. QED.
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