Install Virtualbox Without Admin Privileges In Windows
May 03, 2017 Most of the free virtual machine software available today, don’t support USB booting for some strange reasons. So, we have come up with a smart solution to test a bootable USB flash drive or bootable Windows ISO file without setting virtual machines. Install Virtualbox Without Admin Privileges.
Without admin privileges on the it will be very difficult to get high performance from your Guest OS unless the system was already pre set up to let you. For example if VMWare player was already pre-installed on a machine you could easily move your VM on and off the machine making it portable, and you don't need admin privileges to add or remove the VM from the player software.If there is no VM software already installed in the Host OS you will need to replace the Host OS. This can be easily done without making any modifications to the computer if the computer you are using supports booting from USB or the CD/DVD drive. What you will need to do is make a Live CD/USB with or other similar Linux VM host software pre-installed on it and also have your VM on a portable USB drive (it can even be the same drive that you are booting from). You then you just need to reboot the computer you want use and boot in to your Live CD/USB and start up your VM, you will be the 'administrator' of Live CD/DVD's OS so the VM software can use the low level drivers that will get you good performance inside your VM.Your biggest limiting factor in both setups will be the read and write speed of the USB drive you put your VM image on.
Most cheap USB sticks do not have good write performance and I would recommend paying for a higher end one that lists good write speeds or even put it on a.
Disk2vhd Without Admin Rights
It would be theoretically possible to do it all in user-land (needing no direct kernel access), but for an arbitrary OS to work pretty much absolutely everything including the CPU would have to be emulated so it would be very very slow compared to bare metal. Think DOSBox and similar.With changes to the guest OS it gets better: more can be done relatively native. Have a look at 'user mode linux' for a good example of that There were attempts to make this work under Windows but I think those projects died pretty quickly as people just used kernel mode vitualisers instead for efficiency so there wasn't massive interest (cooperative Linux is somewhere between: it works in a similar manner to UML but requires admin access). Portable software as a general rule is written in poor languages.
That would actually be very easy to create. Most Linux installers are happy to install to a USB stuck and most PCs with happily boot from one. I have a working Debian setup install on a large stick, created form the standard install procedure, that I use for diagnostics - adding vbox (or KVM or Xen or.) to that would be the same as adding it to any other Linux setup and you could then add a set of VMs that can be selected to start automatically on boot (rigging the boot process as needed to give you the choice at the appropriate point). For much better performance at a price, get a good mSATA SSD and USB3 enclosure instead of using a bog-standard USB stick.
