A curated list of awesome resources about virtualization.
- 2005-November-13: Intel
VT-xreleased onPentium 4(Model662and672) processors - 2006-May-23: AMD
AMD-Vreleased onOrleansandWindsorprocessors - 2007-September-10 : AMD
Barcelonaoffer support forRVI(SLAT) - 2008-November: Intel
Nehalemoffer support forEPT(SLAT) - 2010-January-7: Intel
Westmereoffer support forunrestricted guests - 2013-June-4: Intel
haswelloffer 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
- From Kernel to VMM
- 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.
- Part 1: Basic Concepts & Configure Testing Environment
- Part 2: Entering VMX Operation
- Part 3: Setting up Our First Virtual Machine
- Part 4: Address Translation Using Extended Page Table (EPT)
- 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]
- Who Watches The Watcher? Detecting Hypervisor Introspection from Unprivileged Guests
- Blackhat 2010 - Hacking the Hypervisor
- 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
- Breaking Out of VirtualBox through 3D Acceleration - [Slides]
- Ring 0 to Ring -1 Exploitation with Hyper-V IPC
- XenPwn: Breaking paravirtualized devices - [Slide]
- The Great Escapes Of Vmware: A Retrospective Case Study Of VMWare Guest-To-Host Escape Vulnerabilities
- Out of the Truman Show: VM Escape in VMware Gracefully
- Advanced Exploitation: Xen Hypervisor VM Escape
- Xen exploitation part 1: XSA-105, from nobody to root
- Xen exploitation part 2: XSA-148, from guest to host
- Control Register Access Exiting and Crashing VMware
- VirtualBox VMSVGA VM Escape
- VirtualBox NAT DHCP/BOOTP server vulnerabilities
- Wandering through the Shady Corners of VMware Workstation/Fusion
- CVE-2018-2844: From Compiler Optimization to Code Execution - VirtualBox VM Escape
- CVE-2017-3558: Oracle VM VirtualBox - Guest-to-Host Privilege Escalation via Broken Length Handling in slirp Copy
- Better slow than sorry - VirtualBox 3D acceleration considered harmful
- Analyzing a Patch of a Virtual Machine Escape on VMware
- VirtualBox 3D Acceleration: An Acceleration Attack Surface
- A bunch of Red Pills: VMware Escapes
- SSD Advisory – Oracle VirtualBox Multiple Guest to Host Escape Vulnerabilities
- Pandavirtualization: Exploiting the Xen hypervisor