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Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 23:26:18 +0300
From: Dor Laor <dor.laor@...ranet.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, virtualization@...ts.osdl.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: Virt RNG?
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 20:53 +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Has anyone yet written a "hw" RNG module for virt, that reads the host's
> > random number pool?
> >
> > All this talk[1] about IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM in network drivers reminds me
> > that virt guest instances should be grabbing random numbers from the
> > host, especially if the host has a hardware RNG.
>
> It was actually one of the first device types proposed for what would
> become virtio, but as far as I know there has been no work on such a
> device. It certainly makes lots of sense.
>
There was a virtio-rng device:
http://www.mail-archive.com/virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org/msg02902.html
Need to search what happened to it in Rusty's queues.
> J
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