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:

Before installing the Light Agent for Windows on a virtual machine powered by a Citrix Hypervisor (Citrix XenServer), the application XenTools must first 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.

An Integration Services package must be installed on a virtual machine powered by a Microsoft Windows Server (Hyper-V) 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 System Integrity Monitoring works only on virtual machines that have an NTFS or FAT32 file system.

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.

The Light Agent for Windows can protect virtual machines on which Endpoint Sensor from Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform 3.6 is installed.

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