Antivirus for Proxmox Virtualization

[Upendra Dhoble]

Hi, is there any Hypervisor Antivirus available for Proxmox Virtualization ?

Thanks
Upendra

 

[LnxBil]

It's Linux (Debian Jessie), so every Linux antivirus software works. Of course only for the hypervisor itself, everything else cannot work very well if at all.

Why do you need an anti-virus tool on the hypervisor? How should a virus infect the hypervisor?

 

[Upendra Dhoble]

Hi thanks for reply, we do have proxmox servers having few VM's running on it , however some time for testing purpose, QA team keep adding or removing them. if a antivirus is installed on Proxmox it self it should be able to identify new VM and should able to install antivirus on new VM , or some automated process to have antivirus installed on all the VM running on particular Proxmox.

For VMware Kaspersky have a similar solution so I was trying to understand

 

[bert64]

What you could do is mount the virtual filesystems readonly on the host through qemu-img or kpartx and scan them... As this scanning would take place at the hypervisor level rather than on the potentially infected host, it should be more effective.