using acpi information in conditional expression

[Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth]

Hi!

Is it possible to use the output of lsacpi or lspci or
in a conditional expression?

I am using a dual-boot environment where the same box may boot natively 
or inside a VirtualBox VM. Thus I'd like to detect whether grub has been 
started inside VirtualBox or not in order to be able to set different 
defaults.

The output of lsacpi contains "OEM-ID: VBOX" if started inside 
VirtualBox. Is it possible to use that info in the grub config?

I didn't find a way to redirect the lsacpi output to a variable or a 
file to be able to use it with regex.

Do you have any hint?

Maybe inb/inl/inw could be used?

Thanks,
--leo
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