作者: Anh Nguyen , Himanshu Raj , Shravan Rayanchu , Stefan Saroiu , Alec Wolman
关键词: Booting 、 Hardware virtualization 、 Hypervisor 、 Virtual machine 、 Virtualization 、 Embedded system 、 Operating system 、 Computer science 、 Cloud computing 、 Reboot 、 Storage hypervisor
摘要: The set of virtual devices offered by a hypervisor to its guest VMs is virtualization component ripe with security exploits -- more than half all vulnerabilities today's hypervisors are found in this codebase. This paper presents Min-V, that disables not critical running the cloud. Of remaining devices, Min-V takes step further and eliminates functionality needed for cloud.To implement we had overcome an obstacle: boot process many commodity OSes depends on legacy absent from our hypervisor. introduces delusional boot, mechanism allows successfully without developers having re-engineer initialization code these OSes, as well BIOS pre-OS (e.g., bootloader) code. We evaluate demonstrate improvements incur no performance overhead except small delay during reboot VM. Our reliability tests show able run unmodified Linux Windows top minimal interface.