Title :
Reducing Program Environment Misjudgement on VM Detection Using TSC
Author :
Miyamoto, Kunio ; Tanaka, Hidehiko
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Inf. Security, Inst. of Inf. SECURITY, Yokohama, Japan
Abstract :
In case of modern IA32 processors, full virtualization virtual machine monitor (VMM) like a VMware can be detected by measuring some instructions execution time with the time stamp counter (TSC).But when detecting VMM, error analysis for execution times or choosing TSC read point is important for reducing misjudgement whether detecting result is virtual machine (VM) or not. In this paper, we propose the VM detection point and detection program running mode for reducing VM misjudgement.
Keywords :
error analysis; microprocessor chips; virtual machines; IA32 processors; VM detection; VMware detection; error analysis; full virtualization virtual machine monitor; program running mode detection; time stamp counter; Computer aided instruction; Computer architecture; Error analysis; Hardware; Helium; Information security; Licenses; Time measurement; Virtual machine monitors; Virtual manufacturing; Full Virtualization; TSC Delta; Virtual Machine Monitor Detection;
Conference_Titel :
Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, 2009. DASC '09. Eighth IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3929-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5421-1
DOI :
10.1109/DASC.2009.132
