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I have a Windows VM I'd like to use at work. Problem is I am not an admin, and being new on the job I don't want to ask yet for admin rights.

Can't install VirtualBox or VMWare, so I've been trying to use QEMU again (I used it a few years ago with a Win 7 VM) but it just doesn't seem to want to start- gives an error about memory not being allocated for 'pc.ram'. Is there another Windows based VM player that can be used without Admin rights? One reason is that I want to be learning some new skills on lunch break and can't install what I need. The point in this is simply to be able to work at whichever machine they assign for that day, and have my tools. It's not that they forbade it, but that I may be at a plant this morning, a DC tomorrow, a retail site tomorrow afternoon. I can't be set up on them all as administrator. I used to use QEMU in this manner, but for some reason, it doesn't seem to wish to cooperate.

I get issues like 'cannot set up guest memory 'pc.ram' and cannot find a resolution. Even if I asked for admin rights on my work laptop, it wouldn't help much since I am at my desk maybe a couple or two hours a week. Still confused on these tools you need? If the machines are already setup - what other tools do you need? Are you going to FIX something on the computers or network?

Why do you not have admin rights? Sounds like I would consult at another company My guess to your error with qemu is the machine you were trying to run your vm on didn't have enough ram to load your VM. You could lower the ram you were trying to give to your vm.

What version of qemu are you running exactly. Guessing some portable version, or are you installing it? I am assuming your running a windows binary - where did you get it, did you compile yourself?

Unless you do significant surgery. The reason is that Homebrew strongly insists on installing packages into /usr/local. In fact, even if you forced it to install somewhere else, you are likely to break dependencies when you use brew install to install packages.

Most if not all of these packages are pre-compiled and linked expecting to live in /usr/local. The reason for this insistence is that /usr/local is precisely where POSIX recommends that stuff like this gets installed. In order to create /usr/local Homebrew needs temporary admin credentials to create the directory and assign ownership. This, in turn, is what allows you to install anything else without elevating credentials.

I modified the install script to not use sudo and to use a directory of your choice. Download that, set YOUR_HOME in the script to the absolute path. Chmod +x the script.

Create the YOUR_HOME/usr/local directory. Then, execute the script../install.rb In.bash_profile, I set (I'm not positive this is important, pretty sure): export HOMEBREW_PREFIX=/The/path/to/YOUR_HOME/usr/local Now, I can: brew install wget Make sure the bin directory, YOUR_HOME + /usr/local/bin is on your $PATH.