CentOS

Thank you Trevor. I've looked in there and seen those files. I noted Intel's microcode.dat file doesn't seem to match that format and wondered how those files were generated.

Thank you will try that.

This machine is currently a test machine with no vms on it that I'm using to test the meltdown / spectre patches before rolling out to the rest of the server farm.

[root@server ~]# vzlist -a
CTID NPROC STATUS IP_ADDR HOSTNAME
[root@server ~]#

I get the feeling they would tell me the same thing, microcode_ctl and microcode module is provided from Centos. The other machine I'm running with the BIOS update applied is the same Centos 6.9, same OpenVZ kernel, and it shows the expected SPEC_CTRL in /proc/cpuinfo and also shows the system is se...

I am having trouble applying recently released microcode updates provided by Intel to mitigate SPECTRE. I'm running Centos 6.9 with OpenVZ kernel 2.6.32-042stab127.2. Have installed microcode_ctl, loaded the microcode kernel module, and downloaded the most recent microcode from Intel from 20180108. ...