Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2008 20:53:19 +0100 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: Virt RNG? |
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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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