[Xen-devel] possible to do analysis at instruction level?

[John Liu <bradevuu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm going to use XEN to do some security analysis.

In the context of VMX(or SVM), it is possible to do analysis at
instruction level? for example, intercept call/jmp, mov etc.  For
virtualization tools which use binary translation, we are able to do
that. In XEN, it's still possible?  I assume the nature of
para-virtualization and VMX does not provide such mechanism(users are
allowed to register new vm_exit events?).   Modify compiler(or guest
OS) to generate vm_exit for particular instructions? even that it
cannot work for HVM.  Maybe for API-level, things are easier..

The motivation to do instruction-level analysis is OS level info such
as page table is coarse-grained.

I really appreciate your suggestions and help.

Best,
Liu

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