From: Dor Laor Subject: Re: Virt RNG? Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 23:26:18 +0300 Message-ID: <1210883178.24261.914.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <482C8595.5030509@garzik.org> <482C94AF.2010202@goop.org> Reply-To: dor.laor@qumranet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <482C94AF.2010202@goop.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Jeff Garzik , virtualization@lists.osdl.org, LKML , Herbert Xu List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org 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 > _______________________________________________ > Virtualization mailing list > Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization