Re: PV random device

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 18:33 -0700, Sarah Newman wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> We would like to use something like virtio-rng 
> http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Features-Done/VirtIORNG with PVM domUs and
> since the wiki page on virtio
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Virtio_On_Xen says the wiki page is out of date,
> what is the current status?
> 
> Would a native xen driver be likely to be accepted upstream?

My two pence is that this seems like a reasonable application of the
channels[0] interface to provide a simple device that when read spits out
random bytes, which can then be fed into rngd (or whatever it is called).

>  If so, is there anyone already working on one?

It comes up occasionally, most recently was 
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-02/msg00003.html . CCing
Dave.

Cheers,
Ian.

[0] http://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/channel.txt