VBoxManage: error: Could not find a registered machine named ‘“MacOS”’

VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80bb0001), component VirtualBoxWrap, interface IVirtualBox, callee nsISupports

VBoxManage: error: Context: “FindMachine(Bstr(a->argv[0]).raw(), machine.asOutParam())” at line 534 of file VBoxManageModifyVM.cpp

and yet here it is, very clearly

prenez@MPI-2018-Macbook-Pro MacOS % VBoxManage list vms

“MacOS” {f7e4456a-4681–4412–9b83–3fa135d4596b}