There is an updated pull request by iceaway against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/iceaway/void-packages vboxservice_dbus_deb https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/25268 virtualbox-ose: make vboxservice depend on dbus vboxservice will give an error message if dbus is not started. We should check that dbus is running before starting the service. A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/25268.patch is attached