GSF is designed and QA tested to run on Greenbone-Appliances, many uncoordinated integrations are not complete, in a broken state or some what dis-functional due to many different limitation without our control. Please read out FAQ about this.
In Theory they should run without any issues, but if you get a GSF without a Greenbone Appliance, the support stopped with the download of the GSF.
OpenVAS is the pure scanner … without UI etc …
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