Hi,
I have the following configuration :-
• Dell PowerEdge R630 Server
o Hypervisor: VMware ESXi 6.5 U2
o Guest OS : FreeBSD v8.4
o CPU : Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 2.4 GHz
I'm using Intel provided RDRAND/RDSEED instructions for getting random numbers..
I wanted to know if the instruction are used in freebsd , whether hypervisor wil
override those Intel instruction RDRAND/RDSEED with its own information,
or the instruction will be directly processed by Intel CPU and data will be relayed back
to the guest os. (Hypervisor doesn't override).
I have some internet sources which says that to support lockstep mode, hypervisor may override
Intel RDRAND/RDSEED with its own implementation.
Can some one please clarify the behavior wrt VMware ESXi 6.5 U2 ?
Thanks.