From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: 吴锐 <19890121wr@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is that possible to virtualize a kernel module?
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:02:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EF997BF.9030601@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF2sySO0EjRdLMyK8FRZr_p9iuiwy-pjMv2MFdu9H_9SwrWeZw@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/27/2011 11:58 AM, 吴锐 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently do a project to detect malicious module. And I want to
> use KVM, namely, using virtualization to achieve this?
> Is that possible to virtualize a kernel module without a virtualized Linux?
> For example, if I only want to virtualize a network device, the
> network device still runs inside the kernel memory address space
> without changing anything else.
> The only difference is that the network device will run on VMX
> non-root mode, while the kernel still run on VMX root mode.
>
What would be the point? the "virtualized" module can corrupt the
non-virtualized kernel's memory.
It may be technically possible (using vmx, but not kvm), but it's a lot
of work.
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-27 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-27 9:58 Is that possible to virtualize a kernel module? 吴锐
2011-12-27 10:02 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-12-29 3:00 ` Zhen-Hua Li
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