Re: Nessus In a VM

[Zate Berg <zate75 () gmail com>]

I will say you should def try for at least 1GB ram, I have great success
with Ubuntu Server (vanilla and 64bit) in vmware and virtualbox.

I've had mixed success with it on windows VM's.

Zate


On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:31 PM, PJ McGarvey <pj_mcgarvey () hotmail com> wrote:

>  I use the Nessus Applicance with the Professional Feed running in
> VirtualBox on top of a BackTrack 4 install.  I scan a Class C on a Dual Core
> laptop with about 3GB Ram and I can't say I notice any performance issues.
>
> PJ
>
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> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 07:16:13 -0500
> Subject: [Pauldotcom] Nessus In a VM
>
>
>  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.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cody
>
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