Bug#914511: Please enable the "virtio-rng" driver in "cloud" kernels

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Subject: Bug#914511: Please enable the "virtio-rng" driver in "cloud" kernels
From: Cédric Dufour <cedric.dufour@exoscale.ch>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 19:08:12 +0200
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Reply-to: Cédric Dufour <cedric.dufour@exoscale.ch>, 914511@bugs.debian.org
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Workaround: have the hypervisor expose the 'rdrand' CPU feature to the VM

(but this is in the hands of the hypervisor's provider, not the VM user)

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- Bug#914511: Please enable the "virtio-rng" driver in "cloud" kernels
  - From: Cédric Dufour <cedric.dufour@exoscale.ch>