Conditions for anti-virus scan of virtual machines

Kaspersky Security scans virtual machines that meet the following conditions:

• For powered on virtual machines: Guest Introspection Thin Agent has been installed and enabled on the virtual machine.
• For powered off virtual machines: NTFS, FAT32, EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, XFS or BTRFS file system is used on the virtual machine.
• For powered on virtual machines: the virtual machine is part of an NSX Security Group configured in the VMware vSphere Web Client console. This group must be assigned an NSX Security Policy in which the use of the file system protection service (Kaspersky File Antimalware Protection) is configured.

  Kaspersky Security can scan powered off virtual machines with an NTFS, FAT32, EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, XFS, or BTRFS file system according to the scan settings, regardless of whether or not those virtual machines are included in an NSX Security Group.

If even one of the listed conditions is not fulfilled, Kaspersky Security does not scan the virtual machine.

Kaspersky Security also does not scan a virtual machine when one of the following conditions is met:

• You have added the virtual machine to the list of virtual infrastructure objects (Inventory) in the VMware vSphere Web Client console or created the virtual machine on the VMware ESXi hypervisor after the scan task was started.
• You have removed the virtual machine from the list of virtual infrastructure objects (Inventory) in the VMware vSphere Web Client console before the scan of this virtual machine started.
• A virtual machine included in the scope of a running scan task migrates to the VMware ESXi hypervisor on which the scan task has been started.