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Re: [Xen-devel] RAM security




On 06/12/10 17:12, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
3) If the physical server was shutdown (e.g. plug pulled), I'm guessing
this will presetn a problem?
Xen scrubs all memory during boot, unless told not to via a boot parameter.

Now this bit of code makes me happy!

Just wondering, if Xen scrubs all memory during boot, why is booting the Hypervisor so fast? My machine has 8GB of RAM and starts nice and snappy..
It probably takes just a couple of seconds to scrub 8GB.
Plus it doesn't scrub the memory assigned to Dom0.

Doesn't this mean that if Dom0 releases some memory back to Xen, then Xen gives it to another domain, data leakage could occur?

Would one way to prevent this be to disable ballooning?
Silly me, Dom0 should scrub the RAM before releasing it back to Xen, as mentioned in previous post!

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