GVM error on new Kali VM

Linux Distribution and External Repo Discussion
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I have been trying to install GVM on a Kali VM recently, with various degrees of unluckyness.
On VBox, the setup appears to go fine, then upon starting GVM, it doesn’t allow me to connect to 127.0.0.1:9392. The setup-check tells me that the

Step 4: Checking data ... 
        ERROR: SCAP DATA are missing.
        FIX: Run the SCAP synchronization script greenbone-feed-sync.
        sudo greenbone-feed-sync --type scap.

Yet after running feed-sync as instructed, it only runs for a few seconds, shows no error message but doesn’t fix the issue.

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@Johnjohn

How much memory is on virtualbox? make sure it has at least 8G memory.

Feedsync is not related to this issue, make sure that gsad service (www) is running.

systemctl status gsad.service

Eero

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Hi all, I just wanted to comment on this topic because these days I’ve been testing the installation and use of GVM on a Kali Linux over VBox and it works perfectly.

If it is the first install, I recommend to use the gvm-setup command and later the gvm-check-setup, following all the recommendations it makes.

In terms of space, GVM uses more than 13GB of data only in postgres database, and running out of space may lead to silent problems when syncing data for the app.

Regards,

Omar