Add a gap about VM Introspection

JIRA: PREDICTION-5

Change-Id: I366382ffa838bde1af7231797e453417616f397f
Signed-off-by: Hai Liu <hai.liu@huawei.com>

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Section_4_Gap_analysis_in_upstream_projects.rst b/Section_4_Gap_analysis_in_upstream_projects.rst
index 8f35bc1..ff7fb11 100644
--- a/Section_4_Gap_analysis_in_upstream_projects.rst
+++ b/Section_4_Gap_analysis_in_upstream_projects.rst
@@ -67,6 +67,31 @@ Heat is an orchestration project of openstack. It can be used for deploy applica
 
     - Cfn-hup should monitor more information inside VM.
 
+4.3 VM Introspection
+--------------------
+
+Virtual machine introspection (VMI) is a mechanism that allows indirect inspection and manipulation of the state of virtual machines. It resulted in a variety of VMI-based applications dealing with security, performance, and debugging in virtual machine environments. Of course, it can be used to collect detail metrics in VM and used for failure prediction.
+
+LibVMI is an open source implementation of VMI supporting commodity hypervisors such as Xen and KVM. LibVMI provides the functionality of mapping raw memory pages of VMs inside the privileged VM and relies on monitoring software to interpret the contents of these mapped pages. For more information, please visit website: http://libvmi.com/
+
+4.3.1 VM Introspection
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+* Type: 'monitoring issue'
+* Description:
+
+  + To-be
+
+    - VMI can be used to collect detail information inside VM for failure prediction.
+
+  + As-is:
+
+    - VMI can collect some information for security analysis.
+
+  + Gap
+
+    - Openstack is lack of a module used to collect detail information of VM based on VMI technology.
+
 **Documentation tracking**
 
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