Subject: Re: Feedback on the configuration I am considering

From: Arun Khan via PLUG-discuss <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 09:51:46 -0700

On Sun, Jun 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss <
[email-masked]> wrote:

> Is it even possible to run a VirtualBox instance on a simple shared web
> hosting account without root access?
>
> I’d love to see that!
>
>
It's possible to run VB in headless mode inside a VM (albeit w/o CPU
acceleration) but not in a "shared" web hosting subscription, which is
essentially a non privileged *nix login to a host.
VB does require 'root' access for its kernel modules, (output of lsmod
below) plus building them via DKMS for kernel updates.

vboxnetadp             28672  0
vboxnetflt             32768  0
vboxdrv               696320  2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt

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Arun Khan
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