Sandboxie and Full Virtualisation?

Hi

How can it run at full speed? Wouldn't it slow down?

But even if there was such a feature, I don't think you need ten. Around 5 is enough.

 

It uses virtualization that is hardware accelerated so the performance decrease is far less than solutions like VMWare.

 

Why?

Application virtualisation like Sandboxie cut through the OS and file system. Because the OS was not designed that way SBIE and SafeSpace will have implemented different hook strategies (regarding the OS) and different interface implementation (different virtualisation engine), there is no one thruth because you can not tackle all the handles (performance, maybe undocumented) and interfaces are no clean cuts. So two worlds live together on the same infrastructure

Machine Virtualisation is looks like this: Primary OS with the VM application, within the VM application a secondary OS and the applications using that OS, so a nice clean cut interface with complete seperation

Best
VM (Virtual PC, VM, etc) = shared HW, different OS, Seperated File System
[has a Microsoft implementation]

Better
Shadow Sandbox (Returnul, SteadyState, etc) = Shared HW, Shared OS, Seperate file system (at minimum a full data partition is shadowed) [has a microsoft implementation]

Good
Application Sandbox (SBIE, SafeSpace) = Shared HW, Shared OS, virtual file seperation = mixed file system (either file is in or out the Sandbox on a per application/file basis) [has no microsoft implementation]

 

Hi

@ Huangker and Kees1958

Thanks very much for the explanation!