Can I automatically run a virtual machine (made by vmware in fedora OS) at startup in fullscreen?

Question

I am an administrator of a student lab with 20 PCs. I was thinking of a way to protect those machines in the long run with the presence of some students with destructive behaviour. The most suitable solution to install a Linux OS and use virtual machines to load Microsoft OS. This way once the OS fails I can simply replace the VM with a clone that was previously made.

The point is that most students have no experience with Linux, that's why I need to load the Virtual machine automatically at login and in full-screen view so that The startup process ends up in Microsoft OS through the virtual machine (VMWare based) in Linux platform.

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update :
I'm using Fedora13 Linux distribution. I believe that part of launching the VM in full-screen is more difficult than automatically launching VMWare at startup. Is there some way I can tell VMWare to launch a particular virtual machine in full-screen when it starts on boot?

Answer 1

Yes you can, The easiest way to do this is to set GDM to automatically login as a particular user, then setup vmware to run as that user automatically on boot. ~/.Xclients is likely the file you need to edit with the vmware command. If you tell me what distribution you're using, I can point you closer to the right direction.