how to disable selecting networking settings?

[NikitaK]

Hello!
Is it possible in VirtualBox to disable selecting networking settings? I need all VMs work in internal network and haven't access to external network. And i need that my students can't select networking mode in order to not interrupt external network. Thanks!

[scottgus1]

Best of my knowledge, no, not right out of the box. You would have to write your own GUI that calls Vboxmanage for the procedures you want your students to be able to do with your VM's. Then you would need to obfuscate the Virtualbox filenames, so that more knowledgeable students would have a harder time figuring out how to get around your GUI. It would be a fun project, but not by any means bulletproof.

Or,

Get the source code and compile Virtualbox, adding in password control for the parts you don't want people fumbling with.

Or,

Keep your VM's on a server (or three) and let the students RDP in...

[NikitaK]

Thank you very much!!