Thanks! But it‘s very difficult to get all opinions all together.

SuSE Enterprise told me to update:
- kernel
- qemu
- Intel microcode

And the released already updates for all of them.

Stefan

Excuse my typo sent from my mobile phone.

> Am 05.01.2018 um 09:33 schrieb Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>:
> 
>> On 04/01/2018 21:15, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
>> attached the relevant patch for everybody who needs it.
> 
> This is the original patch from Intel, which doesn't work unless you
> have a patched kernel (which you almost certainly don't have) and
> doesn't even warn you about that.
> 
> In other words, it's rubbish.  Please read
> https://www.qemu.org/2018/01/04/spectre/ several times, until you
> understand why there is no urgent need to update QEMU.
> 
> Days are 24 hours for QEMU developers just like for you (and believe me,
> we wished several times that they weren't during the last two months).
> We are prioritizing the fixes according to their effect in mitigating
> the vulnerability, their applicability and the availability of patches
> to the lower levels of the stack.  Right now, the most urgent part is
> the simple mitigations that can go in Linux 4.15 and stable kernels.
> 
> Paolo

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