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  • 1.  SpeculationControl vm sessions

    Posted Jan 08, 2018 02:50 PM

    Hi All,


    What is your output of the MS SpeculationControl Powershell in VM sessions? Even after Patching the ESXi Host (6.0) (HPE Proliant DL380 Gen9) with the 2.54 FW/Bios and updating to ESXi600-201711101-SG and Patching the Windows System (Windows 2012R2, with viruscanner stuff etc.) I still get the output that the system needs to be patched.

    beste regards

    Michael



  • 2.  RE: SpeculationControl vm sessions

    Posted Jan 08, 2018 03:18 PM

    Same for me on a PowerEdge 530 (Gen 13) with the 2.7.0 firmware, ESX 6.0 patched up to all the latest and greatest and Windows 2012R2 patched up and enabled to fix these issues. SpeculationControl tells me there's no hardware support for it.

    Guess we can expect more patches incoming:

    "VMware is working on Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigation patches with the highest priority and they will be made available as soon as the testing process has concluded. This mitigation will include new patches for ESXi, and new versions of Workstation, Fusion, and vCenter Server."

    (VMware Knowledge Base)



  • 3.  RE: SpeculationControl vm sessions

    Posted Jan 08, 2018 03:54 PM

    thanks! I wasn't aware of that KB thanks for sharing.. let's see what's coming up in the next few days...



  • 4.  RE: SpeculationControl vm sessions

    Posted Jan 09, 2018 08:40 AM

    I just saw a twitter that it might has to do with EVC



  • 5.  RE: SpeculationControl vm sessions

    Posted Jan 09, 2018 08:40 AM

    https://twitter.com/i/web/status/949662333038559232



  • 6.  RE: SpeculationControl vm sessions

    Posted Jan 09, 2018 04:42 PM

    The patches just landed..

    https://esxi-patches.v-front.de/ESXi-6.5.0.html

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    Wil



  • 7.  RE: SpeculationControl vm sessions

    Posted Jan 10, 2018 03:43 PM

    and it works!