Secure Virtual Machine Migration in Xen Hypervisor

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.