5 Jan
2018
5 Jan
'18
8:16 p.m.
On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 11:18:53 -0800
Rick Bensene via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Of course, update your OS as soon as updates are available,
as patches (which will likely slow your system down)
are forthcoming
from Microsoft and various Linux trees.
You want to test those updates before you apply them to remote
production VM's. The latest CentOS 6.9 kernel update
(2.6.32-696.18.7.el6 64-bit, which addresses meltdown) is broken on at
least some Xen PV platforms and fails to boot. See
https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=14336. You can't even get into grub
from a remote console to select a working kernel. Well,
you could set
"default x", in /etc/grub.conf, where x = working kernel,
before you
update. Hindsight being 20/20.
jbdigriz