In this talk we'll discuss Xen's new VM forking feature and the memory sharing subsystem it uses to achieve lightning-speed VM deployment. Forking a VM lends itself for use-cases where short-lived but identical VMs are useful, such as fuzzing. Using a hypervisor for fuzzing allows us to poke at code-locations that normally would be difficult or slow to fuzz, like the operating system itself. Without having to reboot the VM to recover it after a crash, fuzzing of the kernel and kernel modules can be achieved at great speed. We'll walk through the integration and harnessing required to start fuzzing a Linux kernel module using AFL on Xen. We'll further discuss other potential applications that are now achievable by combining Xen's VMI capability with VM forks.
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