Virt RNG?
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 14:48:53 -0400
- From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Virt RNG?
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.
Jeff[1] lkml&netdev thread: "[PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM"
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