One of the core features that differentiates Xen from other open-source hypervisors is its native support for stealthy and secure monitoring of guest internals (aka. virtual machine introspection [1]). In Xen 4.6 which was was released last autumn several new features have been introduced that make this subsystem better;
Tamas K Lengyel
Tamas works as Security Researcher at Zentific, LLC and holds a PhD from the University of Connecticut in Computer Science and Engineering. He is an avid open-source developer, acting as maintainer o
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This is a guest blog post by Tamas K. Lengyel, a long-time open source enthusiast and Xen contributor. Tamas works as a Senior Security Researcher at Novetta, while finishing his PhD on the topic of malware analysis and virtualization security at the University of Connecticut. The recent disclosure of the