On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 07:37:09PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi nicoo, > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 09:27:10PM +0200, Nicolas Braud-Santoni wrote: > > On virtual machines, however, the data that the HAVEGE algorithm produces > > is not necessarily unpredictable [1]; hence, we shouldn't install haveged > > on those environments. > > interesting, thanks! sadly it doesnt say which virtualisation environments > were/are affected.
IIRC, back then VMware ESXi was the only platform virtualizing the rdtsc instruction, but 1) I do not have access to it to test (nor do I want to) 2) other virtualization platforms, now or in the future, might do this too.
