Bull Mountain (IvyBridge +) random number generator

Steven Hartland killing at multiplay.co.uk
Fri Oct 12 09:13:05 UTC 2012


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harald Schmalzbauer" <h.schmalzbauer at omnilan.de>
...
>
> I guess using RDRAND in an hypervisor environment should make no
> difference but please correct me if I'm wrong.

Try compiling your kernel with:-
no options PADLOCK_RNG
no options IVY_RNG

Or commenting the relevant lines out of your kernel conf.

    Regards
    Steve

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