A curated list of awesome resources about virtualization.
- 2005-November-13: Intel
VT-x
released onPentium 4
(Model662
and672
) processors - 2006-May-23: AMD
AMD-V
released onOrleans
andWindsor
processors - 2007-September-10 : AMD
Barcelona
offer support forRVI
(SLAT
) - 2008-November: Intel
Nehalem
offer support forEPT
(SLAT
) - 2010-January-7: Intel
Westmere
offer support forunrestricted guests
- 2013-June-4: Intel
haswell
offer support forVMCS Shadowing
- Intel® 64 and IA-32 architectures software developer's manual volume 3C
- Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms for Systems and Processes
- Mastering KVM Virtualization
- Memory Virtualization playlist by Udacity
- Full Virtualization by Geoffrey Challen
- Xen and the Art of Virtualization by Geoffrey Challen
- Container Virtualization by Geoffrey Challen
- Open Security Training Advanced VT-x course
- A comparison of software and hardware techniques for x86 virtualization by K. Adams and O. Agesen (2006)
- Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture with the Original VMware Workstation by Edouard Bugnion, Scott Devine, Mendel Rosenblum, Jeremy Sugerman, And Edward Y. Wang
- The evolution of an x86 virtual machine monitor by O. Agesen, A. Garthwaite, J. Sheldon, and P. Subrahmanyam
- Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third Generation Architectures by Gerald J. Popek & Robert P. Goldberg
- Modern Operating System 4th Edition (Chapter: Virtualization and the cloud) by Andrew Tanembaum
- Xen and the Art of Virtualization by Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Tim Harris, Alex Ho, Rolf Neugebauer, Ian Pratt, Andrew Warfield
- Understanding Full Virtualization, Paravirtualization and Hardware Assisted Virtualization by VMWare
- Dynamic Binary Translation from x86-32 code to x86-64 code for Virtualization by Yu-hsin Chen.
- Zero-Footprint Guest Memory Introspection from Xen by Mihai Dontu - [Slides] [Update]
- Hypervisor memory introspection at the next level
- Bringing Commercial Grade Virtual Machine Introspection to KVM by Mihai Donțu - [Slides]
- Hypervisor-based, hardware-assisted system monitoring
- Virtual Machine Introspection to Detect and Protect
- Hypervisor Memory Forensics - [Slides]
- Unboxing your virtualBox - [Slides]
- Software Attacks on Hypervisor Emulation of Hardware - [Slides]
- Lessons Learned from Eight Years of Breaking Hypervisors - [Slides]
- Virtualization under attack: Breaking out of KVM - [Slides]
- Attacking Hypervisors Using Firmware And Hardware - [Slides]
- Performant Security Hardening of KVM by Steve Rutherford - [Slides]
- The Arms Race Over Virtualization - [Slides]
- Ouroboros: Tearing Xen Hypervisor With the Snake
- Subverting the Xen hypervisor
- Preventing and Detecting Xen Hypervisor Subversions
- Bluepilling the Xen Hypervisor
- Cloudburst: Hacking 3D And Breaking Out Of Vmware
- XenPwn: Breaking paravirtualized devices