Abstract:
Nowadays, virtualization technologies
become increasingly popular in enterprise and
organizational networks: such as data center. In
order to facilitate fault management, highavailability,
load balancing and low-level system
maintenance, live migration functionality of
virtual machine (VM) is very essential. By
carrying out the migration process, there are
many research challenges. However, we only
focus on security issue. There are different
vulnerabilities, security threats and various
prevention strategies. In this paper, the attacks
which occur in live migration are firstly
described. A secure VM migration framework
using enhanced IPSec security strategy based on
dynamic pre-shared key is proposed to prevent
denial of service attack and man-in-the-middle
attack. We design it on Citrix Xen open-source
hypervisor. To evaluate how much secure in
migration, state-of-the-art implementation is as
part of future work.
