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The KVM Forum recently finished, and their post-conference materials are available, including videos of some of the presentations. There are multiple interesting talks on QEMU and KVM for security researchers. Two talks that jump out to me are:
Securing secure boot: system management mode in KVM and Tiano Core
by Paolo Bonzini
Click to access 03×06-Aspen-Paolo_Bonzini-Securing_secure_boot.pdf
Using IPMI in QEMU
by Corey Minyard
Click to access 03×08-Juniper-Corey_Minyard-UsingIPMIinQEMU.ods.pdf
More Information:
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM_Forum_2015
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