On 06/02/2015 12:44 AM, coderman wrote: > On 5/31/15, Barton Gellman <[email protected]> wrote: >> ... >> * A virtual machine may be possible on the monitored host, if the required >> drivers are already present. Probably not. See http://www.vbox.me/. If >> anyone knows a VM that works without admin rights, speak up. > > in the Tor VM experiment from years back (2007) Qemu was used because > it could be run as a restricted user once the Windown Tap and Pcap > drivers were installed.
That's also the case for VirtualBox. So just get admin rights to install the drivers, and then give them up again. > throughput was poor, and this is the crux of a non-admin > virtualization environment - performance demands privileges! > > less a problem for headless network appliances - a real big problem > for interactive graphical user interfaces... > > best regards, >
