Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 1/4] VirtIO-RNG: Update default entropy source to `/dev/urandom`

2019-05-24 Thread Ed Maste
On Tue, 21 May 2019 at 10:15, Laurent Vivier wrote: > > From: Kashyap Chamarthy > > [...] > > Given the above, change the entropy source for VirtIO-RNG device to > `/dev/urandom`. > > Related discussion in these[1][2] past threads. > > [1]

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 1/4] VirtIO-RNG: Update default entropy source to `/dev/urandom`

2019-05-21 Thread Laurent Vivier
From: Kashyap Chamarthy When QEMU exposes a VirtIO-RNG device to the guest, that device needs a source of entropy, and that source needs to be "non-blocking", like `/dev/urandom`. However, currently QEMU defaults to the problematic `/dev/random`, which on Linux is "blocking" (as in, it waits