Hyper-V Virus Scan Exclusions

January 28, 2009

I have found that Hyper-V is easily broken by any on access virus scanning software.  To make life easier, if you are running Hyper-V, or plan to.  Put these exclusions in your vurs scanner:

  • Default VM configuration directory: C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V
  • Custom VM configuration directory
  • Default virtual hard disk directory: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Hyper-V\Virtual Hard Disks
  • Custom virtual hard disk directories
  • Snapshot directories
  • C:\Windows\System32\Vmms.exe
  • C:\Windows\System32\Vmwp.exe

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