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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