This article provides the commands to enable and disable the guest customization in the guest virtual machine. By default, the guest customization is enabled.

VMware Tools 11.x

Note: If the guest virtual machine administrator want to disable the guest customization to prevent VI administrator to customize the virtual machine.
 

For Linux based machine: 

To disable the guest customization in the guest Virtual Machine, Run the command: 
 
vmware-toolbox-cmd config set deployPkg enable-customization false
 
To enable the guest customization in the guest Virtual Machine, Run the command:

vmware-toolbox-cmd config set deployPkg enable-customization true
 

For Windows based Virtual Machines:

To disable the guest customization in the guest Virtual Machine, Run the command: 

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\VMwareToolboxCmd.exe config set deployPkg enable-customization false

To enable the guest customization in the guest Virtual Machine, Run the command:

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\VMwareToolboxCmd.exe config set deployPkg enable-customization true