VirtualBox' main objective is high performance. This can only be
achieved using a kernel
driver. When not having the kernel driver, VirtualBox' performance will
not be much better
than QEMU. There is already an undocumented method to make it work
without the kernel
driver but as we currently do not provide an easy way to export / import
VMs, it's not that
useful yet.
We are definitely planning to add support for using VirtualBox and its
VMs as Portable Software.
Some help from the community would be appreciated, though.
Sven Jacobs wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
>
>
>> I was wondering if there was any way to use my VMs as portable software.
>> I believe QEMU would allow for such a setup, because in it's standard
>> form it does not require any special privileges on the host machine, but
>> can take advantage of acceleration (kqemu) should you have sufficient
>> privileges to install it. The two ways I can see this being possible are
>> as follows:
>>
>> 1) VirtualBox as portable software (it requires Admin privileges to
>> install/use, no? So this probably won't work)
>> 2) QEMU support for VDI images
>>
>> Any ideas on if either of these possibilities (or something I didn't
>> think of) are or will soon be possible??
>>
>
> I don't think think this is possible at the moment because the VirtualBox VMs
> itself are not portable. Please see my post "Room for improvement:
> Portability of virtual machines".
>
>
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