A few years ago I wrote a paper for SANS titled
The original intent for that paper was to serve as the first in a series that dug into all facets of virtsec. Starting with the basic threat analysis of moving systems from hardware to software, that paper dealt with security risks like attacking the host platform, attacking individual guests, and using a shared filesystem. These attacks were all examples of exploiting the nature of running virtual machines in a shared environment with shared resources on the virtual platform; they specifically did not delve into security of the hypervisor.

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