Hey all, general AV and VM question for you.

If I have a server running Hyper-V services and a virtual server inside... both 
running XYZ antivirus... If I a file is scanned on the VM, does that mean the 
physical machine will do a scan as well? Does this mean there is double the IO 
load on the filesystem?

Obviously there would be 2x the memory overhead, 1x for the physical host 
running the AV client, 1x for the virtual one.

But would the on-access scanner have to scan the file on both machines? Are 
there some AVs out there which are "VM aware" and handle this situation? Or 
does this just never occur, as the physical machine never really sees a file 
accessed on the VM?

Just curious.


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Ephrata School District

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