Tag: Meltdown

Virtual Machine Hardware Version does make a difference

John Borhek How to guides, Linux, News, Operating Systems, Testing and Qualification, Ubuntu, VMware, VMware ESXi January 24, 2018

For years, I have dismissed Virtual Machine Hardware version as unimportant. In fact, in this very blog, I may have advocated for leaving VM Hardware Version set at 8, to maintain full compatibility with both the vSphere C# Client and the vSphere Web Client. Unfortunately, thanks to Spectre and Meltdown, things have changed. Updating your
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Spectre, Meltdown and VMware vSphere

John Borhek FEDORA Based, Linux, Operating Systems, VMware, VMware ESXi, VMware vSphere, Windows, Windows Server January 18, 2018

Many people are under the incorrect belief that it is hardware-level firmware updates from companies like HPE and Dell that will protect our Virtual Machines from Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities. This is NOT TRUE. As far as your VMs are concerned, the VM BIOS and Hypervisor are the hardware! When VMware gets around to re-releasing vSphere
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