Re: Virt RNG?
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 20:53:19 +0100
- From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: Virt RNG?
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.
J
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