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Ask Slashdot: Safe Learning Environment For VMs?

Posted by timothy on from the first-do-no-harm dept.

First time accepted submitter rarkian writes "I am the teacher in this story. I teach Python and C++ to high school students: grades 9-12. I use CentOS 6 with DRBL to run my computer lab. Some of my students have become Linux experts. Next year I'm planning on allowing students to create and run their own VMs in a segregated LAN. Any advice on which virtualization technology to use and security concerns with allowing students to be root in a VM?"

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  1. Set up VLANs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    for each of the students and don't allow any interface between them...and certainly no main network/internet access.