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Re:Venom – A security vulnerability in virtual floppy drive ... by cesarb on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @09:39AM (#9538812)
Or perhaps they're using a custom-compiled Xen without the vulnerable floppy disk emulation.
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Re:Venom – A security vulnerability in virtual floppy drive ... by tgeek on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @09:59AM (#9538947)
More likely this. AWS has at numerous talks mentioned a slightly franken-xen fork of Xen.
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Re:Venom – A security vulnerability in virtual floppy drive ... by drzaiusapelord on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @09:58AM (#9538937)
I'm guessing this. Why even make floppy emulation available? It has no use cases on AWS. Floppy support only exists really for Windows driver install at install time, if you can't slipstream the driver in. They probably tore out a lot of stuff while developing the EC2 infrastructure.
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