Tag: Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities

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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