On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 7:42 AM Theo de Raadt <dera...@openbsd.org> wrote:
> It seems some of the smaller hypervisor companies didn't get the memo, > and they are blocking the msr write to to set the chicken bit. > > They block it by raising an exception. > They should IGNORE that bit if they allow setting it. > > I also have a strong suspicion some of them do not have the firmware > fixes, and that the chickenbit-off state we read is true. > > Anyways, a brand new errata to skip setting the chickenbit on such > hypervisors is going out the door right now. > I just fucking love you guys. Thank you. Just applied the fix to the first affected AMD machine and all is well again. Would this be worth putting a ticket into Vultr to get them to make appropriate updates on their side?
