Abstract:With the rapid development of cloud computing technology, virtualization technology has become the core foundation of cloud computing environment. However, as a key security threat, the virtual machine escape attack seriously threatens the multi-tenant isolation mechanism of the cloud platform and the overall security of the system. In this paper, the causes and ways of virtual machine escape attack are systematically sorted out, and the realization path of defense mechanism is discussed from three aspects: system layer, virtualization layer and management mechanism, and the importance of strengthening security policy integration, updating virtualization software components and strengthening monitoring audit is put forward, in order to provide theoretical support and practical reference for improving the overall security of cloud computing platform.