Ok, so I must have misunderstood the initial question...doh! Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel
-----Original Message----- From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 8:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A/V on VM Host Load AV on it just like you would a physical machine? -----Original Message----- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A/V on VM Host 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:mailvor...@gmail.com] 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 <rwri...@evatone.com> 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/> ~ ~ 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/> ~
