How to resuscitate a sick VM in the cloud

• Main Author: DING, Xuhua
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Cloud computing; Runtime; Forensics; Maintenance engineering; Virtual machining; Software; Servers; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8098; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9101/viewcontent/SickVM_254500a089_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

A guest virtual machine in a cloud platform may fall “sick” when its kernel encounters a fatal low-level bug or is subverted by an adversary. The VM owner is hence likely to lose her control over it due to a kernel hang or being denied of remote accesses. While the VM can be rebooted with the assist...