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• October 14, 2011
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  Openvas consistantly hangs VM

  Posted: October 14th, 2011, 7:28am PDT by bacincnybt

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  BackTrack Version: BT5R1-GNOME-VM-32
  System Info: AMD Phenom II Dual-Core, 64-bit, 8 Gb RAM
  OS/Software Info: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, VM Workstation 8.0.0 build-471780
  
  I walked through this post to make sure Openvas was installed correctly: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/wiki/index.php/OpenVas
  
  Using either the web/http interface, or the Greenbone Desktop interface I am able to add targets and create tasks. However, as soon as I kick off a scan (start a task); the complete VM hangs; host CPU spikes repeatedly, the vmware-vmx.exe is top process.
  
  I've rebuilt the VM and reinstalled Openvas several times, behaviour is consistent.
  
  I presume it's trying to conduct the scan, but is this normal behavior? Can the scan be throttled to not consume all of the VMs resources?
  
  Thoughts?
  
  Thanks in advance,
  bc