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.
J
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