On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 11:25:34PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 01:11:41AM +0000, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > > > > (It's not like RNG quaility is a new problem... why didn't > > virtualization approaches include host-to-guest RNG passthrough from the > > beginning?) > > Virtio-rng has been around since 2008 (over a decade), and it provides > specifically the host-to-guest RNG passthrough that you've mentioned. > Qemu supports it, as does GCE. I'm a little surprised to find out > that AWS doesn't support virtio-rng; I thought it did, but I just ran > a quick experiment, and it appears I was wrong.
Thank you for the very informative reply. I really appreciate it. > I'd encourage those of you who are in position to make Amazon listen > to get with the program and support virtio-rng. :-) Noah: chances of AWS supporting virtio-rng? -- Luca Filipozzi
