Hi,
As you may be aware from:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q2/500
there is a rather serious Intel CPU bug which can allow 64-bit
paravirtualized guests to crash and/or potentially gain control of
the entire node.
TL;DR version:
BitFolk is not affected. You don't need to do anything.
Longer version:
As luck would have it, BitFolk does not happen to support 64-bit
guests, so the vast majority of customer systems cannot make use of
this exploit.
There is no technical barrier to prevent customers installing their
own 64-bit OS, however, and two customers have done so. In the
very short term, with the exception of the two customers who are
already running 64-bit, I have prevented 64-bit guests from being
booted. I shall contact the two customers individually to arrange
for them to be moved to an upgraded node.
The alternative would be to upgrade and reboot every node. For some
nodes this would mean a full OS upgrade. This will be done
eventually but over a longer time span, as it will obviously be
necessary in order to support 64-bit guests.
Cheers,
Andy
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http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
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