On 10/29/2014 02:57 PM, David Vrabel wrote: > Microsoft already has a specification to obtain a random number via an > ACPI device. The VM Generation ID. > > http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30707
That's a very different thing. The VM Generation ID always returns the same number if you run the VM from the same configuration file. It tells the VM when it might need a reseed, but provides neither a best effort random number like this spec does, nor an entropy source like virtio-rng does. Paolo _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
