Re: Virt RNG?

[Dor Laor]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg02902.html

Need to search what happened to it in Rusty's queues.
>     J
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