Greetings all,
I work at a university and we are looking to deploy Jupiter Toolbox in a VM, and use it to test students with. The question is: Is there a way to determine, through the API or CLI of VBox, if a user has clicked out/off of the VM window? The goal being to make sure they do not go to a browser or anything else on the host machine. We would like to open the VM full screen with the min/max capability removed and only have it close when they shutdown the VM.
thank you in advance for any help you may offer!
/paul
Know if user clicks out of VM
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Re: Know if user clicks out of VM
You wouldn't do it using any of the VirtualBox API - you would do it by having a software on the host, hook into the system and know what window is currently active. you would then check if the window is the VM one or not.
Hyperbox - Virtual Infrastructure Manager - https://apps.kamax.lu/hyperbox/
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Re: Know if user clicks out of VM
thanks for the reply. Yes, I know we can build a wrapper but we deal with Macs and Win and would prefer not to have to maintain both.