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by jcjgraf 264 days ago
Indeed, victim (e.g. userspace hypervisor like QEMU, firecracker, etc) and attacker (e.g. malicious guest) need to run on the same core. But with VMScape this is always give, because a guest runs as the same process as its hypervisor. Before VMScape, developers only isolated different VMs, different processes and supervisor domains from malicious users. VMScape explits a novel threat model.