Design of a comprehensive virtual machine monitoring system

Author

Jiangyong Shi ; Yuexiang Yang ; Jie He ; Chuan Tang ; Qiang Li

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha, China

fYear

2014

Firstpage

510

Lastpage

513

Abstract

The emerging of virtualization and cloud computing requires a solution to ensure virtual machines´ security. With virtual machine introspection (VMI) technology, it is possible to transparently monitor the virtual machines. Currently, most solutions concern only one particular aspect of virtual machine monitoring, such as network or memory. In this paper, we design and implement a comprehensive monitoring system with open-source software which can monitor the virtual machines´ memory, network and file systems. The experiment results show its potential use in a production environment to comprehensively protect the virtual machines with little performance cost.

Keywords

cloud computing; public domain software; virtual machines; virtualisation; VMI technology; cloud computing; open-source software; virtual machine file systems; virtual machine introspection technology; virtual machine memory; virtual machine monitoring system; virtual machine network; virtual machine security; virtualization; Floods; Kernel; Linux; Monitoring; Periodic structures; Random access memory; Reactive power; monitoring; open-source; virtual machine; virtual machine introspection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems (CCIS), 2014 IEEE 3rd International Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4720-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCIS.2014.7175789

Filename

7175789