Virtual machine requirements for installing Light Agent

Requirements for Light Agent for Linux

On virtual machines running Linux operating systems, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Linux installed in Light Agent mode is used as the Light Agent.

For the minimum hardware requirements and a list of supported operating systems for Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Linux, see the Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Linux Help of the relevant version.

There are limitations when Kaspersky Endpoint Security is used in Light Agent mode to protect virtual environments. Using Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Linux in Light Agent mode is not supported:

• On devices running operating systems for the Arm architecture.
• On devices running Astra Linux operating systems in mandatory access control and closed software environment modes.

Requirements for Light Agent for Windows

On virtual machines running Windows operating systems, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows installed in Light Agent mode is used as the Light Agent.

For the minimum hardware requirements and a list of supported operating systems for Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows, see the Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows Help of the relevant version.

General requirements for Light Agent

The BIOS on the protected virtual machine must support the SMBIOS specification version 2.1 or later.

Before installing Light Agent on virtual machines, you must install the following packages and tools that the application depends on, depending on the virtual infrastructure:

• In a Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructure, the Integration Services package must be installed on the virtual machines.
• In a VMware vSphere infrastructure, the VMware Tools package must be installed on the virtual machines.
• In a XenServer infrastructure, XenTools must be installed on the virtual machines.
• In a HUAWEI FusionSphere infrastructure, the HUAWEI Tools package must be installed on the virtual machines.
• In an infrastructure based on KVM, OpenStack, VK Private Cloud, TIONIX Cloud Platform, Astra Linux, ALT Virtualization Server, Basis, Basis.DynamiX, or Basis Dynamix Standard, QEMU Guest Agent must be installed on virtual machines.

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