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I have VBox operating with Win XP Pro as the Host OS and Win 7 RC as the Guest OS. All are working fine. My questions:

(1) How do I uninstall the Guest OS but leave the VBox intact?

(2) To uninstall both the VBox and the Guest OS, what do I do and in what sequence?

TazioNuvo

1) Open the VB GUI and remove the VM. Then open the Media Manager, look for the VM's hard drive and remove it from there. You get a question if you only want to unregister it, or remove it from the system too. The latter will remove the file from your hard drive, feeing up space.

2) Doesn't matter which order. Removing all VMs and settings is as easy as removing the entire .VirtualBox folder in your profile folder (documents and settings or users).

Wow. Sasquatch, that was a fast response and it also answered my questions. Thank you.

TazioNuvo

Is it possible that there is disk space "lost" after uninstalling virtiual disks ?
I've deleted them, but VBox says it could't delete te disk now cause it was in use.

I seems to miss out about 30 GIG of disk space right now.

I've also deleted the .VirtualBox folder in my profile folder.

Any onther files to be deleted or things to be done please ?

Kurt

If you installed VBox, deleted the .VirtualBox folder, and emptied your recycle bin then you should have recovered all of the disk space.

If disk space was at the root of your concerns then there are freeware tools around that can tell you where it's all going. Apps that fail to clean up the temp files folder are the usual culprits IMHO. Also Microsoft leave a lot of copies of update packages etc lying around.