On 16/07/13 06:30, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Digimer wrote: >> On 15/07/13 07:04, Stefano Stabellini wrote: >>> On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, Digimer wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I've been curious about using hardware true random number generators >>>> in my VM clusters. This got me wondering about the VM's /dev/random >>>> source... If I setup a hardware TRNG on the host, would the VM's also >>>> benefit from it? >>> >>> Xen VMs would not be able to benefit from it. I don't know about KVM. >> >> Would you be able to elaborate on why not? I know Xen and KVM differ, but this >> is not a topic I have seen discussed at all before, so any insight would be >> helpful and appreciated! :) > > Because we don't have a paravirtualized interface to export the > randomness to the guest. > It would be a nice small little project to do that though. > Ah, ok. I'm an admin, not a programmer, so I am not sure what would be needed. Given how popular VMs are now, I can imagine it would be a nice feature to have. If it's a "small" project, then all the better! :) Thanks! -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
