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Secure virtualization environment based on advanced memory introspection

Zhang et al., 2018

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4807270078318452689
Author
Zhang S
Meng X
Wang L
Xu L
Han X
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Security and Communication Networks

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Most existing virtual machine introspection (VMI) technologies analyze the status of a target virtual machine under the assumption that the operating system (OS) version and kernel structure information are known at the hypervisor level. In this paper, we propose a model of …
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