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<refentry id="vboxmanage-closemedium" lang="en">
  <refentryinfo>
    <pubdate>$Date: 2024-09-16 14:03:52 +0000 (Mon, 16 Sep 2024) $</pubdate>
    <title>VBoxManage closemedium</title>
  </refentryinfo>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>VBoxManage-closemedium</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>VBoxManage-closemedium</refname>
    <refpurpose>remove a hard disk, DVD, or floppy image from the media registry</refpurpose>
    <refclass>&product-name;</refclass>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis id="synopsis-vboxmanage-closemedium">
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      <command>VBoxManage closemedium</command>
      <group>
        <arg choice="plain">disk</arg>
        <arg choice="plain">dvd</arg>
        <arg choice="plain">floppy</arg>
      </group>
      <group choice="req">
        <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>uuid</replaceable></arg>
        <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>filename</replaceable></arg>
      </group>
      <arg>--delete</arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1 id="vboxmanage-closemedium-description">
    <title>Description</title>
    <para>
      The <command>VBoxManage closemedium</command> command removes a
      hard disk, DVD, or floppy image from the list of known media used
      by &product-name;. The image is then unavailable for selection in
      the Virtual Media Manager.
    </para>
    <para>
      To use this command, the image must not be attached to any VMs.
    </para>
    <para>
      Optionally, you can request that the image be deleted.
    </para>
    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>disk|dvd|floppy</term>
        <listitem><para>
            Specifies the type of medium. Valid values are
            <literal>disk</literal> (hard drive),
            <literal>dvd</literal>, or <literal>floppy</literal>.
          </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><replaceable>uuid</replaceable>|<replaceable>filename</replaceable></term>
        <listitem><para>
            Specifies the Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) or
            absolute path name of the medium or image.
          </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--delete</option></term>
        <listitem><para>
            Deletes the image file.
          </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id="vboxmanage-closemedium-examples">
    <title>Examples</title>
    <remark role="help-scope" condition="GLOBAL" />
    <para>
      The following command removes the disk image file called
      <filename>disk01.vdi</filename> from the registry.
    </para>
<screen>$ VBoxManage closemedium disk01.vdi</screen>
    <para>
      The following command removes the disk image file called
      <filename>disk01.vdi</filename> from the registry and deletes the
      image file.
    </para>
<screen>$ VBoxManage closemedium disk01.vdi --delete</screen>
  </refsect1>
</refentry>