Re: [libvirt-users] converting save/dump output into physical memory image

2012-06-04 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/02/2012 12:20 PM, NoxDaFox wrote: > > For what I know it's not possible to analyze memory contained in libvirt > snapshots taken through qemu savevm. qemu 'savevm' dumps in an internal migration format. But you can use the 'migrate' command to do a migration to disk, which at least some m

Re: [libvirt-users] converting save/dump output into physical memory image

2012-06-02 Thread NoxDaFox
Andrew Tappert writes: > > > A lot of people in the security community, myself included, are > interested in memory forensics these days. Virtualization is a natural > fit with memory forensics because it allows one to get access to a > guest's memory without having to introduce any extra soft

Re: [libvirt-users] converting save/dump output into physical memory image

2011-05-06 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 01:56:10PM -0400, Andrew Tappert wrote: > > A lot of people in the security community, myself included, are > interested in memory forensics these days. Virtualization is a natural > fit with memory forensics because it allows one to get access to a > guest's memory withou

Re: [libvirt-users] converting save/dump output into physical memory image

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Tappert
On 05/05/2011 02:33 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 05/05/2011 11:56 AM, Andrew Tappert wrote: >> >> Virsh has "save" and "dump" commands for storing the state of a guest to >> a file on disk, but memory of KVM guests doesn't get saved in the >> "standard" input format for memory forensics tools, which

Re: [libvirt-users] converting save/dump output into physical memory image

2011-05-05 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/05/2011 11:56 AM, Andrew Tappert wrote: > > A lot of people in the security community, myself included, are > interested in memory forensics these days. Virtualization is a natural > fit with memory forensics because it allows one to get access to a > guest's memory without having to introd

[libvirt-users] converting save/dump output into physical memory image

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Tappert
A lot of people in the security community, myself included, are interested in memory forensics these days. Virtualization is a natural fit with memory forensics because it allows one to get access to a guest's memory without having to introduce any extra software into the guest or otherwise inter