Supported Virtualization Platforms for Qualys Scanner Appliances

All distributions offer complete Qualys scanning functionality to support Qualys Vulnerability Management, Policy Compliance, and Web Application Scanning.

Customers are not restricted only to these platforms when deploying the virtual scanner appliance, and the Qualys Virtual Scanner Appliance can be reasonably expected to function on other similar versions and platforms. Customers are also free to perform conversions to other packaging and virtual hard drive formats (for example, qcow, raw). Qualys can only provide full support for platforms and versions that have undergone our qualification process and are available for testing in our labs.

If you wish to request full qualification of a virtualization or cloud platform not listed here, notify your Qualys Technical Account Manager (TAM) or Qualys Support so that they can register this request with Qualys Product Management.

License

The Qualys Virtual Scanner Appliance is available in various distributions for different virtualization platforms. However, it is sold as a single product with a single SKU. Each license purchased allows the user to have one active Qualys Virtual Scanner Appliance.

The Qualys Virtual Scanner Appliance serves as an extension to the customer's existing solution subscriptions on the Qualys Cloud Platform. It is not a standalone solution. With the same license, customers can choose to delete any instance of the Qualys Virtual Scanner Appliance at any time and install another instance of any distribution in its place, or in a completely different location.

At present, Qualys Scanner Appliance does not support ARM-based infrastructure, such as Apple products with M1 and M2 chipsets.

To learn about configurable resources, refer to the Resources Configuration section.

Available Distributions

Following is the list of distribution packages along with the target platforms.

Distribution Package	Target Platforms	File/Package Type	File Location
VMware	VMware vCenter, vSphere, ESXi Server versions up to 8.0¹ (All Stable minor versions up to 8.0²) VMware Workstation, Workstation Player, Fusion versions up to 15¹ (All Stable minor versions up to 15.0²)	VMware vApp OVA with VMDK virtual disk format	Download from Qualys Cloud Platform
OpenStack	OpenStack supported versions (up to Wallaby)	TAR.GZ with QCOW2 virtual disk format	Download from Qualys Cloud Platform
Microsoft Hyper-V	Microsoft Windows Server (up to Windows 11 22h2)	ZIP with VHDX virtual disk format	Download from Qualys Cloud Platform
Citrix XenServer	Citrix Hypervisor/XenServer (up to version 8x)	OVA with VMDK virtual disk format	Download from Qualys Cloud Platform
Amazon HVM Machine Image	Amazon EC2-VPC	AMI	AWS Marketplace
Microsoft Azure Image	Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform	VHD	Azure Marketplace
Google Compute Cloud Image	Google Cloud Platform	TAR.GZ with RAW virtual disk format	Google Cloud Marketplace
Oracle Cloud Image	Oracle Cloud Platform	QCOW2	OCI in Marketplace
Alibaba Cloud Image	Alibaba Cloud Compute	QCOW2	Alibaba Cloud Marketplace
IBM Cloud Classic Image	IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure	VHD	User Guide
IBM Cloud VPC Image	IBM Cloud VPC Infrastructure	QCOW2	User Guide
Nutanix	Nutanix (Upto Version 6.5)	TAR.GZ with QCOW2 virtual disk format	Download from Qualys Cloud Platform
KVM	Standalone KVM Platform; Kernel-based Virtual Machines (up to Cockpit version 276.1)	TAR.GZ with QCOW2 virtual disk format	Download from Qualys Cloud Platform
Red Hat Virtualization	Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), formerly known as RHEV (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization)	OVA with VMDK virtual disk format	Download from Qualys Cloud Platform
Proxmox	Proxmox	TAR.GZ with QCOW2 virtual disk format	Download from Qualys Cloud Platform
AzureStack Image	Microsoft AzureStack Hub	VHD	User Guide

¹EOL versions are not supported.
²Qualys Images are tested and certified on major release versions of supported platforms. However, intermediate minor stable builds should be compatible with Qualys Image. If the minor version doesn't work, then we recommend you to use the supported major version.

Download from Qualys Cloud Platform

To download the file or package type, log in to the Qualys Cloud Platform and choose an application (either Vulnerability Management (VM) or Policy Compliance (PC)), depending on your requirements.

Navigate to Scans > Appliances and select New > Virtual Scanner Appliance. Choose the Download Image Only option, and select the distribution package you want to download.

Additional Resources

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