Virtual machine requirements for installing the Light Agent for Windows
July 22, 2024
ID 175612
To install and operate the Light Agent for Windows, the virtual machine must meet the following minimum hardware requirements:
- 1.5 GHz virtual processor
- 2 GB available disk space
- 2 GB available RAM
- Virtualized network interface with bandwidth of 100 Mbit/s
For installation and proper operation of Light Agent for Windows together with Kaspersky Endpoint Agent, the virtual machine must meet the following minimum hardware requirements:
- Two 2.4 GHz virtual processors
- 3 GB available disk space
- 4 GB available RAM
- Virtualized network interface with bandwidth of 100 Mbit/s
Kaspersky Security for Virtualization 5.2 Light Agent can be integrated with Kaspersky Endpoint Agent 3.11.
Before installing Light Agent for Windows on a virtual machine managed by Citrix Hypervisor, the XenTools application must be installed.
The VMware Tools kit must be installed before installing the Light Agent for Windows on a virtual machine powered by a VMware ESXi hypervisor.
The HUAWEI Tools kit must be installed before installing the Light Agent for Windows on a virtual machine powered by a HUAWEI FusionCompute CNA hypervisor.
Before installing Light Agent for Windows on a virtual machine managed by Microsoft Windows Server (Hyper-V) hypervisor, an Integration Services package must be installed.
QEMU Guest Agent must be installed before installing Light Agent for Windows on a virtual machine managed by a KVM hypervisor (including those running on the OpenStack Platform, VK Cloud platform, TIONIX Cloud Platform, and Astra Linux Platform) or by an ALT Virtualization Server platform basic hypervisor.
One of the following guest operating systems must be installed on the virtual machine to support the installation and operation of the Light Agent for Windows:
- Windows 11 21H2 Pro/Enterprise/Education
- Windows 10 Desktop Pro 19H1/19H2/20H1/20H2/21H1 (32 / 64-bit)
- Windows 10 Enterprise 2016 LTSC/2019 LTSC/19H1/19H2/20H1/20H2/21H1 (32 / 64-bit)
- Windows 8.1 Update 1 Professional/Enterprise (32 / 64-bit)
- Windows 7 Professional/Enterprise Service Pack 1 (32/64-bit)
- Windows Server 2022 Standard/Datacenter/Essentials (Desktop experience/Core)
- Windows Server 2019 Standard/Datacenter (Desktop experience/Core)
- Windows Server 2016 Standard/Datacenter (Desktop experience/Core)
- Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard/Datacenter/Essentials (Desktop experience/Core)
- Windows Server 2012 Standard/Datacenter/Essentials (Desktop experience/Core)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Standard/Enterprise/Datacenter (Desktop experience/Core)
The set of Light Agent functional components that you can use on a virtual machine depends on the guest operating system of the virtual machine.
To avoid delays in installing the application under Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, make sure that the Windows operating system automatically updates lists of trusted and untrusted (revoked) software vendor certificates online via Windows Update. For systems without access to Windows Update or systems on which automatic updating of lists of trusted and untrusted certificates is disabled, these lists must be kept up to date manually in accordance with the Microsoft technical support recommendations at: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2677070 and https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2813430.
The Light Agent for Windows can protect virtual machines that are part of an infrastructure employing the following virtualization solutions:
- Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1912 LTSR with the latest updates installed.
- Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR with the latest updates installed.
- Citrix Provisioning 7 1912 LTSR with the latest updates installed.
- Citrix Provisioning Services 7.15 LTSR with the latest updates installed.
- VMware Horizon 8.2 (2103).
- VMware App Volumes (2103).
- HUAWEI FusionAccess 8.0 and later.