RapidVMI: Fast and multi-core aware active virtual machine introspection
Thomas Dangl, Benjamin Taubmann, Hans P. Reiser · 2021
Virtual machine introspection (VMI) is a technique for the external monitoring of virtual machines. Through previous work, it became apparent that VMI can contribute to the security of distributed systems and cloud architectures by facilitating stealthy intrusion detection, malware analysis, and digital forensics. The main shortcomings of active VMI-based approaches such as program tracing or process injection in production environments result from the side effects of writing to virtual address spaces and the parallel execution of shared main memory on multiple processor cores.