At the company I work for we also had Admin By Request. We also had a lot of problems installing automation studio (AS5.X.X) and the IT therefore decided to remove Admin By Request and to search for an alternative.
I think this is more of an issue running ARsim in a VM as an Automation controller for testing/ModbusTCP control.
I’ve worked with customers using Automation Studio from 3.0.90 and later in VMs. The biggest issues we run into is if the VM is trying to access files on the host machine and not in the VM.