Due to these security alerts and looking at VMware Knowledge Base it gives a list of thing to do. One of them is
For each virtual machine, enable Hypervisor-Assisted Guest mitigation via the following steps:
- Apply all security patches for your Guest OS which are available from the OS vendor.
- Ensure that your VMs are using Virtual Hardware Version 9 or higher. Upgrading a virtual machine to the latest hardware version (multiple versions) (1010675) discusses Hardware Versions .
- Virtual Hardware Version 9 is minimum requirement for Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigation for branch target injection (CVE-2017-5715).
The question i have has anyone ever updated the hardware from the default v8 for vrops. and if so are there any tools updates to be done first?