Release 4.1: Nutanix | OpenStack

June 5, 2025 

 The operating system for Virtual Scanner cannot be upgraded. You need to replace the scanner image or deploy a new scanner with the latest image, although this may not always be necessary. For details on when scanner replacement is necessary, refer to the Know when scanner replacement is needed section. 

What's New?

This release brings new features and updates to data centers:

Data Center: Nutanix, OpenStack

  • This version is not limited to Nutanix and OpenStack. It is already available on AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, VMware, and Hyper-V. In future releases, it will be available on all other supported virtualization platforms as well.
  • The availability of scanners in cloud marketplaces depends on cloud vendors and usually takes a few weeks after general availability from Qualys.

New Features

With this release, we have introduced new features for:

Nutanix

  • qVSA 4.1 image version is based on Oracle Linux 8(x86_64) with UEK kernel-5.15.
  • The Scanner console displays the UI on tty1 and the system log on tty8.
  • The supported virtual machine image formats for deploying the Qualys Scanner on Nutanix using the qVSA-4.1.X image are VMDK and QCOW2.
  • Syslog forwarding is set up to forward all scanner logs, including both scanning-related logs, AUTOUPDATE logs, and all messages from /var/log/messages.
  • A Virtual Machine instance with a minimum of 2GB of RAM is required.
  • Support for TLSv1.3.

OpenStack

  • qVSA 4.1 image version is based on Oracle Linux 8(x86_64) with UEK kernel-5.15.
  • The Scanner console displays the UI on tty1 and the system log on tty8.
  • The supported virtual machine image format for deploying the Qualys Scanner on OpenStack using the qVSA-4.1.X image is QCOW2.
  • Syslog forwarding is set up to forward all scanner logs, including both scanning-related logs, AUTOUPDATE logs, and all messages from /var/log/messages.
  • A Virtual Machine instance with a minimum of 2GB of RAM is required.
  • Support for TLSv1.3.

Limitation

The current release has the following limitations:

  • Currently, we are not supporting SCAP scanning.
  • The qVSA-4.1 image does not yet support UEFI-compliant firmware, Secure Boot, or vTPM-protected Measured Boot.

 

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