Design of a comprehensive virtual machine monitoring system
Jiangyong Shi, Yuexiang Yang, Jie He, Chuan Tang, Qiang Li · 2014
The emerging of virtualization and cloud computing requires a solution to ensure virtual machines' security. With virtual machine introspection (VMI) technology, it is possible to transparently monitor the virtual machines. Currently, most solutions concern only one particular aspect of virtual machine monitoring, such as network or memory. In this paper, we design and implement a comprehensive monitoring system with open-source software which can monitor the virtual machines' memory, network and file systems. The experiment results show its potential use in a production environment to comprehensively protect the virtual machines with little performance cost.