AMD Immune to MDS Vulnerabilities

Re:AMD Immune to MDS Vulnerabilities by dontbenebby on Sunday May 19, 2019 @12:43AM (#19951484)

Thanks for the detailed reply. If I don’t game does it still apply? I run VMs sometimes but usually have no issues since I tend to stock up on RAM.

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Re:AMD Immune to MDS Vulnerabilities by nine_k on Sunday May 19, 2019 @01:14AM (#19951583)

If your VMs consume CPU, as opposed to mostly waiting, many cores with low power consumption are beneficial.

If all the VMs do is waiting for a network packet 99.9% of time, then not so much.

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Re:AMD Immune to MDS Vulnerabilities by dontbenebby on Sunday May 19, 2019 @10:28AM (#19953426)

It's not anything super resource intensive beyond the inherent need for the resources of the VM + host. I just got sick of dealing with some of macOS's idiosynchacies in it's Very Special Epiosde of BSD that is their CLI interface, so I spin up an Xbuntu or Debian image when I have a project. (That + snapshots makes it a lot less painful to try interesting things)

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