Re: Nessus In a VM

[Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>]

On 7 December 2010 12:16, Cody Dumont <CDumont () nwnit com> wrote:
> Greeting All,
> I have heard Paul talk about using Nessus in a VM many times, and I know
> that if you  run Nessus in a VM you  eventually run into limitations of the
> VM software.  Can you  tell me what the limitations are.  The three
> computers I will be running Nesuss in a VM all have Quad Core CPU with at
> least 8 GB of RAM.  So there should not be an issue of hard that could
> support Nessus if installed directly on the system.

I run my nessus from a VirtualBox VM with 512M memory and a 12G disk
and have had no problem scanning class Cs and the occasional B.

Robin

> Thanks,
> Cody
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