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Environment: Windows 11 Home Edition

Installation

Installation

Download

Go to the OpenVAS website below and sign up for OpenVAS Free, or OpenVAS Basic 14-day trial. You will receive an email with download links for virtual machine image files of OpenVAS in VMWare or VirtualBox format.

https://www.greenbone.net/en/openvas-free/

VirtualBox setup

Start VirtualBox, and select File > Import Appliance in the menu bar. Click the open file icon and select the OVA file that you just downloaded. Leave all settings as default, but be sure to allocate at least 2 CPUs and 5GB RAM to the VM.

I allocated 4 CPUs and 8GB of RAM to the VM

It's possible that the right network adapter isn't selected by default in the Network configuration, in the drop-down list Name, which would result in problems using the VM. In case you do encounter an error during setup, make sure that you have selected the correct network adapter in the settings.

OpenVAS VM setup

Log in using the default credentials:

Username: admin

Password: admin

Complete the setup

Provide a username and password

We don't have an OpenVAS license, so press Skip

In the event that one obtains a license, they press HTTP Upload and open this page in their browser to upload the license file:

(openvas-vm-ip-addr):41381

Press OK to let the system perform a selfcheck

Once the selfcheck is finished, the setup is then complete

OpenVAS appliance information