[libvirt] RFC: virtio-rng and /dev/urandom

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Apr 18 00:20:05 UTC 2016


On 04/16/16 01:31, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> Right, but there's always the point about people that use heterogeneous
> hosts and cannot pass rdrand/rdseed to the guest.  For these, we should
> add a QEMU driver that uses rdrand/rdseed, and thus decouples virtio-rng
> from the host /dev/* completely.
> 

You should be able to crib the code from rngd (rng-tools) pretty much
verbatim.

	-hpa





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