VMs without Administrator rights [was: Threat model: Parents]

[coderman]

On 5/31/15, Barton Gellman <otr at riseup.net> 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.

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,