Sorry if this kind of question isn’t allowed here, but I’m at my wit’s end. VB randomly started launching on startup about 2 weeks ago (on EndeavourOS) and I can’t figure out why. There’s no shortcut in ~/config/autostart, it isn’t in the KDE startup apps list, and I can’t find anything virtualbox-related with systemctl either. There’s also no setting in the VB app itself. WTF?
Bummer! What’s its parent process? Maybe that will hint at something.
I’m not sure what you mean by this, sorry! My Linux expertise is limited once I get below surface level.
Well hey, welcome to the Linux club :)
Unlike Windows, in Linux every process has a parent except for PID (Process ID) 1, which is the init system. You can run a command like
ps auxf
and you’ll get a tree of all your processes and you can hopefully see what spawned VirtualBox.