How to uninstall VirtualBox 6.1 from MacOS Catalina 10.15.4

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melquiades
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How to uninstall VirtualBox 6.1 from MacOS Catalina 10.15.4

Post by melquiades »

I am trying to uninstall Vbox from Catalina using uninstall.tool, the process is done and it says all kext files have been unloaded. But I can still find them under /Library/StagedExtensions/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox, and they are not removable.

ANy idea how to remove vbox completely?
okiuss
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Re: How to uninstall VirtualBox 6.1 from MacOS Catalina 10.15.4

Post by okiuss »

In terminal check if the kexts are being loaded ....or if they are are just lying around on the filesystem.

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kextstat -l | grep -v apple
  162    3 0xffffff7f83d8b000 0xf1000    0xf1000    org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (6.1.97) 35C5A25F-7342-3F09-B4E7-3B8B7BA5814E <8 6 5 3 1>
  165    0 0xffffff7f83e94000 0x8000     0x8000     org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (6.1.97) 939A3820-0CCA-34EF-A1A4-BB8038FBF39F <164 162 59 8 6 5 3 1>
  175    0 0xffffff7f84bb2000 0x5000     0x5000     org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (6.1.97) 339B671C-034C-3C4C-A5BE-8D995406A4B9 <162 8 6 5 3 1>
  178    0 0xffffff7f84be6000 0x6000     0x6000     org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (6.1.97) B2FA79B6-FB43-3A82-B89D-78D202846254 <162 6 5 1>
fth0
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Re: How to uninstall VirtualBox 6.1 from MacOS Catalina 10.15.4

Post by fth0 »

Please take a look at viewtopic.php?f=8&t=95849#p464555 (and the surrounding thread) for an explanation and solution.
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