DocumentCode
3094751
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
fYear
2009
fDate
12-14 Dec. 2009
Firstpage
483
Lastpage
485
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
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
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/DASC.2009.132
Filename
5380393
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