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This is not a sandbox. All this does is launch windows in hyper-v virtual machine and configures the virtual environment automatically for you. You could achie
by revanx_ 8y ago
This is not a sandbox. All this does is launch windows in hyper-v virtual machine and configures the virtual environment automatically for you.
You could achieve all of this yourself manually and you still wouldn't call it a sandbox, you would call it VM.
- crummy 8y agoCan't you use a VM as a sandbox?
- revanx_ 8y agoSure, I just don't think they should advertise this as such because it's nothing more then a VM. It's not some new windows feature, you could do this same thing since Windows 8.1 using hyper-V or since windows XP using something like Virtualbox. A proper sandbox would be if you could run a program in the same operating system with an isolated execution environment, similar to how sandboxie does it.
- JaRail 8y agoYou can say you get the same result, yes. However this does it in a very different way. It's linking to the host OS's OS. It's not a VHD with a separate windows installation. That makes it quite a bit more lightweight. You don't have to patch it separately, etc. When installed, the sandbox image is only 100mb, mostly immutable links to host OS files.
- gshrikant 8y agoI agree, it is not the same sandbox as for example, browser sandboxes which restrict capabilities for multiple tabs to a given set of resources. However, its closer to KVM or Docker than to VirtualBox. The host and the 'guest' appear to be much more tightly integrated than in a full virtualized environment.
- alkonaut 8y agoAll vm's are sandboxes I suppose. The interesting difference between this and a normal VM is that the files are shared so that it's not using the space of a full VM.