Disable HotPlug from virtual desktops

I was talking to a customer yesterday who was running a pilot View environment. One of the questions that came up was how to stop end users right clicking on the remove hardware icon in the system tray and removing the NIC or hard disk. Obviously removing these from linked clones is not a good thing for the user on that desktop.

• Right-click the virtual machine and click Edit Settings.
• Click the Options tab.
• Click General > Configuration Parameters > Add Row.
• Insert a new row with the name devices.hotplug and value false.

I would normally do this to the master VM so all the linked clones have this setting.

There is a VMware KB article covering this (1012225): http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1012225