Push the Red Button

I have just created a prebuilt Virtualbox VM for testing PANDA . It's a current Debian 7.1 install with the latest (as of 10/4/2013) version of PANDA and prerequisites installed. The username and password for the VM are " panda:panda ", with root password " panda ". Also included is a Debian i386 QCOW2 image (created by Aurelien Jarno ) that can be used to test PANDA. Once you have the VM booted and you're logged in, you can cd into the panda/qemu directory and do: panda@pandavm:~/panda/qemu$ x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 \ -m 256 -hda ~/qcow/debian_squeeze_i386_standard.qcow2 -monitor stdio This will start up an instance of PANDA and boot the Debian image. From there you can create recordings and replay them with PANDA's various plugins; see the documentation for more details. Hopefully this will make it easier for people to get started with PANDA!

I'm pleased to announce the initial release of a new open source dynamic analysis platform built on QEMU, named PANDA (Platform for Architecture-Neutral Dynamic Analysis) . It has a number of features that combine to make it a uniquely powerful platform for analyzing software as it executes: Record and Replay : PANDA is capable of recording the non-deterministic inputs during a whole-system execution and later deterministically replaying them. This means that heavyweight analyses that would be too slow to run on a live execution can be decoupled to run on the replayed execution instead. We recently used this in our 2013 ACM CCS paper to monitor every memory access made by an OS and applications, which would not have been feasible without record and replay. Record and replay is currently supported for i386, x86_64, and ARM, with more architectures planned. For more details see the record and replay documentation . Android Support : Thanks to excellent work by Josh Hodosh, PAND...