[libvirt-users] virtio_rng in a KVM VM

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:10:10AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:51:48AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > I am virtualizing with KVM via libvirt and virt-manager. To have
> > decent amounts of Entropy in the guest, I tried loading virtio_rng in
> > a running VM. Despite the module being loaded, I didn't get any log
> > entries, and also no /dev/hwrng.
> > 
> > Do I need to enable the virtualized random generator in
> > libvirt/virt-manager? If so, how do I do that? Is the support for this
> > rather recent feature already implemented in qemu-kvm 1.0, libvirt
> > 0.9.12 and virt-manager 0.9.1?
> 
> No host side support for this exists in QEMU/KVM yet
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg117461.html

Ah, I see. Thanks for the quick answer. Sad news though.

Greetings
Marc

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