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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Shiva V <shivaramakrishnan740@gmail.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Verifying Execution Integrity in Untrusted hypervisors
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 22:52:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D2C374.5050500@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20140725T215916-638@post.gmane.org>

Il 25/07/2014 22:11, Shiva V ha scritto:
> 5. Underlying hypervisor is untrusted.
> 
> Can anyone please shed any direction to proceed.I am stuck here.
> Anytime I try to make a progress, I get back to the loop where 
> vcpu and the address translations from the guest virtual pages to host
> physical pages is handled by the hypervisor and this can be altered.

If the hypervisor is untrusted, the game is over.

You could not do this on an untrusted processor, the hypervisor is the
same thing.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-25 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-25 20:11 Verifying Execution Integrity in Untrusted hypervisors Shiva V
2014-07-25 20:52 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
     [not found]   ` <CAAQucXZWvbE0MJyEEeo=6hkwBJi0WkmixcuCzGEXLaZX1+6ziQ@mail.gmail.com>
2014-07-25 22:06     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-26 19:56       ` Andrey Korolyov
2014-07-28 17:17 ` Joel Schopp
2014-07-28 18:31   ` Jan Kiszka
2014-07-28 20:27     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-28 21:17       ` Nakajima, Jun
2014-07-29  5:35         ` Jan Kiszka
2014-07-31 18:25           ` Shiva V

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