So how do you protect your VM? Or do you simply keep a supposedly known good backup of it in case the active gets infected?
Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 8:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: A/V on VM Host On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Roger Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > Would the anti-virus package on a host machine also protect the guest VMs? No. To the host OS, the virtual disk image is just a giant binary file. You wouldn't want to scan that with AV; it would kill performance. And even if the AV found something, all it could do would be to quarantine or delete your virtual disk -- essentially causing your VM to spontaneously disappear from existence. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
