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

[Mirimir]

On 06/02/2015 12:44 AM, coderman wrote:
> 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.

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,
>