How to disable Ctrl-Alt-Delete to reboot the VM hosted in a Vmware Esx Server?

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I have a Linux VM hosted on a Vmware ESx Server5.5, in the production environment. And I need to disable the Ctrl-Alt-Delete option. So that While working on the Console option in the vSphere Client on that VM. Ctrl-Alt-Delete should not reboot the VM.

How can I achieve that? I could not find any Power Settings or Keyboard settings for this. Even if there are other ways within the Linux VM machine configuration changes, that should be fine.

You'll need to configure the Linux VM to trap the key combination - what distribution are we talking about? — pauska, Jul 24 '15 at 10:28
@pauska I am using the RHEL VM customized in the OVA format as per my need. — kvivek, Jul 25 '15 at 17:12

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 24 '15 at 10:37

You have to fix this at the Linux level. And that is going to depend on your specific Linux system's version.

For a virtual machine, though, I'd try to avoid working on the VMware console. It's not a good user experience.

Please see: Isn't Ctrl-Alt-Delete on Linux *really* dangerous?

How to disable Ctrl-Alt-Delete to reboot the VM hosted in a Vmware Esx Server?

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