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Detect VirtualBox and suppress heartbleed/spectre #271

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vpetersson opened this issue Mar 5, 2020 · 0 comments
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Detect VirtualBox and suppress heartbleed/spectre #271

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While it might be technically true that VirtualBox is prone to some CPU bugs, it isn't really an issue as nobody is using this in production. It does however screw up the demos when we use VirtualBox+Vagrant.

We can detect VirtualBox using the BIOS:

$ cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/bios_version
VirtualBox
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