Add VirtualBox as Hypervisor about icinga2-diagnostics HOT 4 CLOSED

It seems like Virtualbox has an output like:

virtualbox
kvm

While I can add this to the hypervisor detection I'd really like to have more input in the future whether this is always the case or just some specialty of some boxes. By now I've seen it on all boxes I tested. Vagrant boxes as well as "standard" boxes I set up myself.

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I found at least some boxes which have the following output of virt-what:

virtualbox

So it seems to depend how the box was built. Still need more input.

Maybe someone could bring light into this? Running virt-what on VirtualBox VMs other than CentOS 7 would be helpful, too.

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VMs created using VirtualBox returns "virtualbox" (Debian 9.3.0, Ubuntu 16.04.3).
Looking into virt-what this is dependent on inspecting the manufacturer code returned by executing dmidecode.

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I tested this on other boxes as well. As @wnieder said, it depends on what dmidecode says. I'd say the check should be sufficient for now.

If it's not, please reopen this issue or open a new one about hypervisor detection being flawed.

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