Recently on the Red Hat Developers blog, I wrote about the re-architecture of the atomic vulnerability scan feature. The primary function of atomic scan is to detect vulnerabilities in your images and containers using a plug-in enabled architecture.
Building upon that concept, we added an additional feature to atomic scan where you can now pass a chroot to it for the purposes of scanning. One immediate benefit from this change was that we can now use the same scanner for our images and containers to scan a virtual machine (VM) that has been mounted onto the host’s filesystem.
In this blog, I will show you how to scan a live VM with atomic scan.
