1. A method of system state analysis of a computational system comprising: specifying a scope of state information to be captured based on a selected analysis to be performed on captured state information, wherein the scope of the state information is to include at least kernel memory information if the selected analysis is a first type of analysis, wherein the scope of the state information is to exclude kernel memory information if the selected analysis is a second type of analysis, and wherein the scope of the state information is specified for one or more selected guest machines of a plurality of guest machines running on a virtual machine layer of a computational system; controlling the virtual machine layer to capture selective state information of the one or more selected guest machines running on the virtual machine layer, wherein the selective state information is within the specified scope of the state information; and analyzing the captured selective state information according to the selected analysis, wherein the selected analysis includes a policy containing an attribute, and wherein the attribute is used to analyze a portion of the captured selective state information, wherein the second type of analysis is a compliance check to validate that the computational system includes a desired system configuration, and wherein the first type of analysis is to: validate kernel data structures in the kernel memory of a kernel have not been corrupted; validate the kernel is properly configured; and validate the kernel includes necessary components.