Re: [Xen-devel] Truly Autonomous Migration

[Tim Freeman <tfreeman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 01:03:06 +0100
Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacob@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> hi,
> 
> I just had my first success at self-migrating a domain across two hosts, 
> with absolutely no involvement from Xen or Domain0. On the sending side 
> I have a self-migrating XenLinux 2.4, migrated by a small userspace 
> process inside it, which reads a checkpoint from /dev/checkpoint and 
> writes it to a TCP socket.
> 
> On the receiving side I have a small (the kernel binary is 25952 bytes) 
> TCP stack and server in an unprivileged domain.  It receives the 
> checkpoint, fixes up the pagetables, and jumps to the incoming data, 
> which resumes there and has now been live-migrated to the new host.
> 
> Apart from the coolness-factor of being able to checkpoint and migrate 
> oneself without outside involvement (as well as some performance 
> benefits of not having to run with shadow page tables, though it has 
> been a while since I made any direct comparisons against Ian's stuff), 
> this to me seems to be good news for security.  If a machine can run 
> without any privileged code facing the network, the attack surface and 
> thus risk of compromise is greatly reduced.
> 
> I will make binaries available tomorrow, if anyone is interested in 
> playing with this?  (Guess not, but at least I am having fun with this ;-))

Just to let you know: I am interested!  Keep up the cool work :-) 

Tim


> 
> Best,
> Jacob
> 
> 
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