Virtual machine requirements for installing the Light Agent for Windows

To install and operate the Light Agent for Windows, the virtual machine must meet the following minimum hardware requirements:

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:

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.

The qemu-guest-agent kit must be installed before installing the Light Agent for Windows on a virtual machine managed by KVM 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:

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:

If you use the specified solutions for virtualization, configure the recommended exclusions listed on the application page in the Knowledge Base for the golden image.

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