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A comment on CPU cache-based communication between two co-located virtual machines.

Re:CPU cache-based communication between two co-located virt... by darkengine on Thursday March 30, 2017 @04:27PM (#13998596)
Reminds me a lot of this DEF CON talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X772EBdvnM

He managed to stream video across VMs by doing a similar cache timing trick, which brought a round of applause from the crowd. Very cool stuff.

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Re:CPU cache-based communication between two co-located virt... by redrabbyte on Thursday March 30, 2017 @09:06PM (#14000443)
I guess you could call it an evolution, because memory deduplication is not always enabled anymore (research like this might have played a role here ;)

he talks about that @35:27 in the video

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