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Hi !

I need to restrict (or simply block) some items in the VBox settings for users that are not local Administrators.
Particularly, I want to block the "New" (that creates a new Virtual Machine) button and all the Network settings of existing machines (normal users should only be allowed to use Virtual Machines with "Internal Only" networks).

Is there some easy way tho achieve this, or do I have to disable these GUI objects using a third-party software ? Or in worst case recompile the whole VirtualBox software ?

Cheers & TIA !
/Mathias

As far as I have read, no. But I believe Vboxmanage gives access to all the GUI settings and more. So if you write your own GUI for Virtualbox that uses Vboxmanage as the link to Virtualbox, you could give or restrict whatever capabilities you want.

Hm ok.

But there is nothing that blocks a non-Administrator to run the VirtualBox.exe file without arguments ( = starts up the settings GUI) anyway. I can't block the access to the exe-file itself since it's need for starting the virtual machines.

Seems I have to recompile the VirtualBox.exe application itself anyway :-/

Cheers & thanks !
/Mathais