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From: Jeff Garzik
Subject: Virt RNG?
Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 11:48 am

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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Virt RNG?, Jeff Garzik, (Thu May 15, 11:48 am)
Re: Virt RNG?, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Thu May 15, 12:53 pm)
Re: Virt RNG?, Dor Laor, (Thu May 15, 1:26 pm)
Re: Virt RNG?, Christian Borntraeger, (Thu May 15, 1:31 pm)
Re: Virt RNG?, Jeff Dike, (Thu May 15, 1:43 pm)
Re: Virt RNG?, Jeff Garzik, (Thu May 15, 1:44 pm)
Re: Virt RNG?, Rusty Russell, (Thu May 15, 4:43 pm)
Re: Virt RNG?, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Thu May 15, 5:07 pm)
[PATCH 1/2] virtio: hardware random device, Rusty Russell, (Thu May 15, 10:31 pm)
[PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support, Rusty Russell, (Thu May 15, 10:39 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio: hardware random device, Christian Borntraeger, (Fri May 16, 12:31 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support, Johannes Berg, (Fri May 16, 3:49 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support, H. Peter Anvin, (Fri May 16, 1:25 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support, Rusty Russell, (Fri May 16, 9:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support, H. Peter Anvin, (Fri May 16, 9:50 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support, Rusty Russell, (Fri May 16, 11:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support, Herbert Xu, (Fri May 16, 11:43 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support, Christian Borntraeger, (Sat May 17, 12:43 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Sat May 17, 12:47 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support, H. Peter Anvin, (Sat May 17, 8:56 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support, H. Peter Anvin, (Sat May 17, 8:57 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support, Rusty Russell, (Mon May 19, 2:05 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Mon May 19, 2:10 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support, Rusty Russell, (Mon May 19, 2:28 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Mon May 19, 2:45 am)