VirtualBox prevent user to leave VM

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hopefully my question is ok here :)

I have to modify a Virtualbox VM (Debian OS) so that a user cannot leave this VM. Therefore, the VM has to capture all user interactions until the VM is shutdown.

I know, the easiest solution would be a second OS running on this computer but I cannot do that.

I've googled and there were some Threads telling me to "run commands" but I do not even have the slightest hint where to execute them.

Any help is appreciated :)

Greetz, Paddaels

PaddaelsM

Posted 2017-08-25T11:07:55.623

Reputation: 101

This won't be possible with VirtualBox which has several methods to escape the VM. Now you could boot directly to the VM in theory but that is a greater technical challenge – Ramhound – 2017-08-25T11:13:00.197

And I cannot do that :/ – PaddaelsM – 2017-08-25T11:18:35.170

If you don't install the guest addons and you change the host-key to something people can't guess, it will be very hard to get out of the VM once the session was activated. – LPChip – 2017-08-25T11:37:28.120

Thank you very much for your help but we will do it differently. – PaddaelsM – 2017-10-04T09:14:17.800

Answers

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Since Virtualbox has a lot of mechanisms to leave the vm, we will do it as followed.

  • The vm will run in fullscreen
  • The supervisor will have a look on each screen
  • We will configure our os so nobody can use firefox to google for results.

Thanks a lot for your help :)

PaddaelsM

Posted 2017-08-25T11:07:55.623

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