On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 10:42:25AM -0700, Kevin wrote:
> 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?

Yes (but I see you already did)

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