Release 4.1: VMware | HyperV

May 02, 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 and desktop platforms.

• Data Center: VMware
• Desktop Platforms:  HyperV

• This version is not limited to just VMware and HyperV. It has already been released on AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. In upcoming releases, it will also be available for all other supported virtualization platforms.
• 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:

VMWare

• 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 standard qVSA-4.1 OVA image now supports scanner configuration using vApp templates and vApp options.
• 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.

Hyper-V

• 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 standard qVSA-4.1 OVA image now supports scanner configuration using vApp templates and vApp options.
• 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

Currently, we are not supporting SCAP scanning.