Am Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2008 schrieb Jeff Garzik: > 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. Yes, there was a drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c in Rusty's lguest repository. http://www.mail-archive.com/virtualization%40lists.linux-foundation.org/msg02902.html I have tested this driver with this fix https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/virtualization/2008-January/009737.html and it worked. As it transfers only 4 byte per hypercall it is not mindblowingly fast, but I guess it is fast enough. Dont know why it never hit mainline. Christian _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
