Papers i've read on virtualization and security

http://advosys.ca/viewpoints/2007/09/cis-virtualization-security-guide/

http://soda.swedish-ict.se/3800/1/T2009_14A.pdf - excellent paper from the Swedish institute of Computer Science on Virtualization,

http://taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdf

Formal requirements of Virtual Architectures - http://www-users.itlabs.umn.edu/classes/Fall-2009/csci8980-virtual/papers/popek-virt-reqmts.pdf

http://www.itm.iit.edu/netsecure10/Suva-Broda-Fortel-IsVirtualizationPuttingYouAtRisk-IITNetsecure10.pdf - Presentation on Virtualization Security Risks

http://studies.ac.upc.edu/doctorat/ENGRAP/Miquel.pdf - Overhead of virtual networking on a host system

http://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2007/ols2007v1-pages-225-230.pdf - excellent paper detailing the KVM - Hypervisor