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I am a teacher in a Windows-supported college university, where we use a lot of software that only runs on Windows computers. We would like to help our Mac students by providing them with an easy-to-use and easy-to-transfer way to run Windows as a virtual machine, preferably without to need to install or configure a lot of software for the student.
Does somebody have an idea of a way in which we can create and configure a virtual machine and provide it to the students for simple use?
You can do it using transfer of virtual machines,
First create one virtual machine on Your computer and install necessary os and softwares into it,
Then transfer this virtual machine backup to your students Macs (Ask them to use same VM player that you used to make that VM) Also provide the login credentials of VM os.
Here is detailed description for VirtualBox but you are free to use any VM Player, Hope this helped you.
For the exact same need and for security testing (of vulnerability of different operating systems), I evaluated many virtualization environments.
I finally adopted VirtualBox because it was able to run many Windows versions, many Linux versions without too many usability and configuration problems. From a security standpoint and from a teacher standpoint the ease of use is a wining point.
As a security engineer I test operating systems under condition where they die (most notably weapons against Windows), and VirtualBox survived.
For a teacher, here are 2 more pieces of advice:
VirtualBox will let you save a virtual operating state image which could contain softwares already suitably configured for your students to save a lot of time.
