Opened 12 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
#11657 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Non-Admin mode of installation and operation to increase market share of VirtualBox.
| Reported by: | shm | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | installer | Version: | VirtualBox 4.2.10 |
| Keywords: | portable non-admin | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | all | Host type: | all |
Description
Firstly, thanks whole of VirtualBox team for their continuous wonderful work.
I would like to suggest an enhancement to increase the market share of VirtualBox.
I see that, if NAT networking is used, and no virtualbox web server is needed, then no admins privileges are needed.
Folder sharing shouldn't need kernel drivers. Similarly to any file browser. File locking and synchronization is same as in file browser.
If Graphics need kernel drivers, we can easily start a vnc-server and vnc-client will handle the graphics(qemu has this feature). Here I assume, we are not considering graphics performance for gaming.
So in short, if user requirements are as below, we should work on non admin mode of installation and operation.
- Nat networking.
- No advance graphics(for gaming). Simple graphics is fine.
Thanks, Shm
There are still kernel drivers required for executing guest code.