Xen and the mysterious meltdown vulnerability
Oh, oh dear. Well, that is not the best. I had just updated the Meltdown and Spectre checker script I...
CL7 Kernels and Xen PV
I have been having issues with Cloud Linux 7 on a Xen 4.4 platform (for example OnApp v5 LTS) –...
Xen based VM’s immune to Meltdown?
Humour me a moment – it would appear that the current stock Xen Paravirtualization is showing as not vulnerable to...
CentOS7 now booting on Xen
The fallout from Spectre and Meltdown continue to plague me … us… all. Today saw a group of firmware /...
CentOS/CloudLinux 7 on Xen hanging at startup
Previously I posted on how to recover from failing to boot a new kernel. However, the issue still stands as...
Fix CentOS VM not booting after recent patch
I am seeing CloudLinux7, and CentOS7 Virtual Machines patched to the latest kernel versions not booting on Xen based OnApp...
Initial Fallout Spectre/Meltdown
End of business Friday 5h January – the state of Kernels looked a little like this with a quick eyeball...
Spectre & Meltdown
Spectre and Meltdown are names that have been coined to cover a family of vulnerabilities that manifest themselves in design...