How to resuscitate a sick VM in the cloud

• 主要作者: DING, Xuhua
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• 主題: Cloud computing; Runtime; Forensics; Maintenance engineering; Virtual machining; Software; Servers; Information Security
• 在線閱讀: 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
• 機構: 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...