Virt RNG?
From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Thu May 15 2008 - 14:49:18 EST
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.
Jeff
[1] lkml&netdev thread: "[PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers'
last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM"
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