Re: random(4) and VMs

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On 09/18/2018 10:00 AM, Sandy Harris wrote:

> Is a fix that only deals with a subset of the problem worth
> considering? Just patch the VM support code so that any time a VM is
> either booted or re-started after a save, the host system drops in
> some entropy, This looks relatively easy to do, at least for Linux
> VMs, and some of the code might be the same as what the more general
> approaches would need.

Good solutions already exist for that subset of the problem.

Configure your VM so that each guest has a virtual /dev/hwrng
I know this works for qemu.
I imagine it works for other VMs.

If you find this unsatisfactory, please explain.





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