Description: Check if we are running in a virtual machine before wasting time running virtualbox guest things Author: Kevin Puetz (puetzk) Origin: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1762491/comments/9 Last-Update: 2018-07-19 Index: virtualbox/src/VBox/Additions/x11/Installer/98vboxadd-xclient =================================================================== --- virtualbox.orig/src/VBox/Additions/x11/Installer/98vboxadd-xclient +++ virtualbox/src/VBox/Additions/x11/Installer/98vboxadd-xclient @@ -15,6 +15,17 @@ # hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any kind. # +in_virtual_machine() +{ + if [ -z "$(lspci -d 80ee:cafe)" ]; then + echo "VirtualBox Additions disabled, not in a Virtual Machine" >&2 + return 1 + fi + + return 0 +} +in_virtual_machine || return + # Sanity check: if non-writeable PID-files are present in the user home # directory VBoxClient will fail to start. for i in $HOME/.vboxclient-*.pid; do