How to install Sandbox VM images from command line [KATA/KEDRE]

[Antipova Anna]

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This article is applicable to both KATA and Kaspersky Sandbox 1. It's not applicable to KSB2.

In certain cases (i.e. slow connection to Datacenter from Administrator workplace) it may be troublesome to upload VM images to fresh installed KATA Sandbox server. In such cases, you may prefer to transfer VM images to Sandbox via tools like WinSCP, and then install images via command line tools.

Step-by-step guide

 Images should be transferred to Sandbox. Files should be located in /var/opt/kaspersky/apt/files/ folder.

Then, execute the following commands:

sb-vm-iso --list-iso   sb-vm-iso --check-install path-to-vm-image.iso //use the paths from previous command output   sb-vm-iso --install path-to-vm-image.iso   sb-vms --apply-all

Please install VM images one by one, and not all at once, to avoid issues with disk space/RAM

If you use PuTTY to connect via SSH make sure in its settings → Connection → "Seconds between keepalives"  is set to for example 10.

Otherwise SSH session might drop due to timeout which will terminate active command.