This is possibly not achievable without cooperation from the anti-virus vendors but it seemed to me it would be useful- since parallels already provides the virtual hard-drive and memory, that it would be possible for anti-virus running in OSX to hook into this so you do not need to run anti-virus on any guest OS systems. I suppose this could result in terrible I/O for the guests. Also maybe it is also impractical because the OSX anti-virus would have to be detecting windows viruses and, theoretically, linux viruses as well. also, i guess when it found a virus, it might not easily notify the guest OS in a friendly way. This seems like a difficult request to fulfill, but since this is a wish list, I guess I will throw it out there.
If you can make the guest file systems available for mounting to OS X with NFS, Samba, or what ever method you can, then any virus scanner can to that now. I've done this with ClamAV running in OS X. I used NFS to attach the file systems of interest in a Solaris 10 environment and the scan went fine. It isn't the fastest way to do it - in fact it took twice as long than when I ran ClamAV natively in the Solaris VM. ClamAV is both free and available for OS X, LInux, Solaris, Windows, and anything else you can build it to run on.
Yea that's a good idea. technically anti-virus could be running anywhere on the network if you're just doing scheduled scans. i was imagining actual real-time hook into the virtual disk that could "spy" on all the I/O to check for virus code. i know it's possibly not a very reaslisic idea considering the difficulty to do it vs the amount of people that would want the feature.
