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So I've seen many posts and pages from a range of dates on the web discussing a version of virtualbox, called Portable Virtualbox. What I can't figure out with certainty is whether you can use it w/o needing admin privileges on the system.

I'm a student developer and I own 1 extra legitimate copy of both XPpro and Vista 32... I want to be able to carry a Virtualbox machine of each, configured the way I need for my development sandbox on my e-sata drive and be able to load my sandboxes on any of the machines on campus to work on my projects.

I don't have admin rights on these machines, and they do not have vbox installed... so can I use the latest version of Portable Virtualbox in this manner... or am I restricted to doing my development on only my own systems?

Just looking for up-to-date info. Thanks.

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This one has been asked before. Because VBox installs device drivers and takes over machine facilities to enable H/W virtualisation, it must be installed. If you want to avoid installing you need a software translation only package which can run entirely as an end-user application such as QEMU.

Nevertheless an approach could be found here:

http://www.german-nlite.org/wbb/index.p ... hreadID=28

Read the "Hinweis" section. There it is said that you at least need Main user rights on the PC you want to use.

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