Two key issues exist during virtual machine （VM） migration in cloud computing. One is when to start migration, and the other is how to determine a reliable target, both of which totally depend on whether the source ...Two key issues exist during virtual machine （VM） migration in cloud computing. One is when to start migration, and the other is how to determine a reliable target, both of which totally depend on whether the source hypervisor is trusted or not in previous studies. However, once the source hypervisor is not trusted any more, migration will be facing unprecedented challenges. To address the problems, we propose a secure architecture SMIG （secure migration）, which defines a new concept of Region Critical TCB and leverages an innovative adjacent integrity measurement （AIM） mechanism. AIM dynamically monitors the integrity of its adjacent hypervisor, and passes the results to the Re- gion Critical TCB, which then determines whether to start migration and where to migrate according to a table named integrity validation table. We have implemented a prototype of SMIG based on the Xen hypervisor. Experimental evaluation result shows that SMIG could detect a malicious hypervisor and start migration to a trusted one rapidly, only incurring a moderate overhead for computing intensive and I/O intensive tasks, and small for others.展开更多
基金Acknowledgements The subject was sponsored by the National Science and Technology Major Project （2012ZX01039-004） and the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant No. 61305054）
文摘Two key issues exist during virtual machine （VM） migration in cloud computing. One is when to start migration, and the other is how to determine a reliable target, both of which totally depend on whether the source hypervisor is trusted or not in previous studies. However, once the source hypervisor is not trusted any more, migration will be facing unprecedented challenges. To address the problems, we propose a secure architecture SMIG （secure migration）, which defines a new concept of Region Critical TCB and leverages an innovative adjacent integrity measurement （AIM） mechanism. AIM dynamically monitors the integrity of its adjacent hypervisor, and passes the results to the Re- gion Critical TCB, which then determines whether to start migration and where to migrate according to a table named integrity validation table. We have implemented a prototype of SMIG based on the Xen hypervisor. Experimental evaluation result shows that SMIG could detect a malicious hypervisor and start migration to a trusted one rapidly, only incurring a moderate overhead for computing intensive and I/O intensive tasks, and small for others.
