An approach to on the fly activation and deactivation of virtualization-based security systems.

An approach to on the fly activation and deactivation of virtualization-based security systems.

Authors

D. Yefremov, P. Iakovenko.

Abstract

We report on work in progress which allows on the fly activation and deactivation of hardware virtualization based security systems intended for protecting applications running under the control of untrusted operating system. We present an approach for reserving hardware resources from the operating system for the hypervisor and additional virtual machines that may be required by the security system. We also consider that hypervisor is launched from the untrusted environment that may try to fool the user during the startup and shutdown of the hypervisor.

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Keywords

VMM; hypervisor; virtual machine monitor; virtualization; secure activation; on the fly load.

Edition

Proceedings of Spring/Summer Young Researchers' Colloquium on Software Engineering, Nizhniy Novgorod, 2010, pp. 157-161.

DOI: 10.15514/SYRCOSE-2010-4-31

ISBN 978-5-91474-015-0

Research Group

Software Engineering

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