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Can anyone with better knowledge ELI5 to me -- to fix this bug, are cloud providers have to patch only hypervisor machines, or guest boxes as well? And if fix i

Can anyone with better knowledge ELI5 to me -- to fix this bug, are cloud providers have to patch only hypervisor machines, or guest boxes as well? And if fix is applied to hypervisor, will performance degrade on guest boxes as benchmark suggests? Thanks!

dingo_bat 9y ago
Guest OS shouldn't be an issue, from what I understand. As long as the hypervisor memory is separated, you're good.
chrisper 9y ago
Yes it will affect your VM as it's the host CPU that's affected.