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Message-Id: <1210883178.24261.914.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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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