[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#451742: Bug#451742: Don't modprobe vboxadd

[Michael Meskes]

Hi Kel,

> I have attached patch below to improve upon what is committed to
> pkg-virtualbox in r116 and r118.

Thanks. Committed.

> The committed lspci check will not work, because vendor id and device id is
> not provided in the default lspci output stream. A better way would be to do a

Sorry, but for me it does:

michael at virtualsid:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] (rev 02)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II]
00:01.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Unknown device 80ee:beef
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 40)
00:04.0 System peripheral: Unknown device 80ee:cafe
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 08)

If the device was known the ids wouldn't be displayed though.

> direct lookup using known vendor_id:device_id with the '-d' option. If a string is
> returned then the device is present. If nothing is returned, print a message
> stating system is not in a Virtual Machine.

Good idea anyway because it removes one pipe.

Michael
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