On the feasibility of software attacks on commodity virtual machine monitors via direct device assignment
Gábor Pék, Andrea Lanzi, Abhinav Srivastava, Davide Balzarotti, Aurélien Francillon, Christoph Neumann · 2014
The security of virtual machine monitors (VMMs) is a challenging and active field of research. In particular, due to the increasing significance of hardware virtualization in cloud solutions, it is important to clearly understand existing and arising VMM-related threats. Unfortunately, there is still a lot of confusion around this topic as many attacks presented in the past have never been implemented in practice or tested in a realistic scenario.