Vagrant: Cannot destroy a zombie box

[vitaut]

I can't destroy the box after deleting the content of a (test) project including Vagrantfile. vagrant global-status reports the box as running:

$ vagrant global-status
id       name    provider   state   directory                           
------------------------------------------------------------------------
3898812  default virtualbox running /home/viz/test  

but vagrant destroy has no effect:

$ vagrant destroy 3898812
==> default: VM not created. Moving on...

I've tried using VBoxManage to poweroff and unregister the VM as suggested in http://stackoverflow.com/a/15410190/471164, but vagrant still reports it as running.

I'm using Vagrant 1.6.3.dev.

[mitchellh]

This is working as intended. As the docs say (or they should, if not, I need to add), global-status shows a _cached_ view of the world, and global control allows remote control of _Vagrant environments_. If the Vagrantfile doesn't exist anymore, the Vagrant environment is a zombie as its always been and you must clean it up manually.

[vitaut]

Thanks for clarification, the docs indeed say that and I should have read more carefully. Running vagrant global-status --prune removed the zombie box. Sorry for the noise.

[tschet]

Thanks, that was helpful. I realized I had a box on the global-status list that no longer existed, but couldn't figure out how to remove it.

[eMPee584]

Mh.. Why exactly is global-status showing a cached view?

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