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Virtual Machine Introspection

Virtual Machine Introspection: A Security Innovation With New Commercial Applications
08/15/2016

The article from Lars Kurth, the Xen Project chairperson, was first published on Linux.com. A few weeks ago, Citrix and Bitdefender launched XenServer 7 and Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection, which together compose the first commercial application of the Xen Project Hypervisor’s Virtual Machine Introspection (VMI) infrastructure. In this article,

Stealthy monitoring with Xen altp2m
04/13/2016

One of the core features that differentiates Xen from other open-source hypervisors is its native support for stealthy and secure monitoring of guest internals (aka. virtual machine introspection [1]). In Xen 4.6 which was was released last autumn several new features have been introduced that make this subsystem better;