Forensic Acquisition and Analysis of Deleted Vmware Virtual Machine

Leveraging Forensic Tools for Virtual Machine Introspection

Virtual machine introspection (VMI) has formed the basis of a number of novel approaches to security in recent years. Although the isolation provided by a virtualized environment provides improved security, software that makes use of VMI must overcome the semantic gap, reconstructing high-level state information from low-level data sources such as physical memory. The digital forensics communit...

Forensic Acquisition and Analysis of Tango VoIP

The advent of the Internet has significantly transformed the daily activities of millions of people, with one of them being the way people communicate where Instant Messaging (IM) and Voice over IP (VoIP) communications have become prevalent. Although IM applications are ubiquitous communication tools nowadays, it was observed that the relevant research on the topic of evidence collection from ...

Forensic acquisition and analysis of magnetic tapes

Recovering evidential data from magnetic tapes in a forensically sound manner is a difficult task. There are many different tape technologies in existence today and an even greater number of archive formats used. This paper discusses the issues and challenges involved in the forensic acquisition and analysis of magnetic tapes. It identifies areas of slack space on tapes and discusses the challe...

The VMware Reference Architecture for Stateless Virtual Desktops with VMware

Performance Isolation of a Misbehaving Virtual Machine with Xen, VMware and Solaris Containers

In recent years, there have been a number of papers comparing the performance of different virtualization environments for x86 such as Xen, VMware and UML. These comparisons have focused on quantifying the overhead of virtualization for one VM compared to a base OS. In addition, researchers have examined the performance degradation experienced when multiple VMs are running the same workload. Th...