On 07/22/2014 02:04 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > Just to check: do you mean the RDRAND is very likely to work (i.e. > arch_get_random_long will return true) or that RDRAND will actually > reseed several times during initialization? > I mean that RDRAND will actually reseed several times during initialization. The documented architectural limit is actually extremely conservative. Either way, it isn't really different from seeding from a VM hosts /dev/urandom... -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html