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Not sure what distro he is using but Debian and RHEL have patches for this. http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/qemu-kvm http://security-

• asharp 15y ago
  I know of this. The interesting question it brings up is how do you keep a cloud like this patched and up to date without dropping SLA?
  • rednaught 15y ago
    Patching is normally considered part of scheduled or emergency maintenance and therefore doesn't count against the SLA for uptime. This is fairly standard in the hosting/ISP world. So much of this can be automated now that it is not a problem. As a provider myself, I allow customers to pick their patch day/time. They can even manually push patches themselves and be present to test when the service comes back up. Proactive maintenance(datacenter, networking, hardware, OS, and appptack/utils) should be considered a way of life these days if you're a provider. If customers don't understand or agree with that, then there are plenty of providers who don't keep up-to-date offerings that they can migrate to.