From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Ian Molton <ian.molton@collabora.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-rng
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:57:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911112257.12367.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AFB2D4D.8050208@collabora.co.uk>
> I'm writing a virtio-rng host-side driver for qemu-kvm, and I've got
> something up and running that works, and will pass data gathered from a
> char device on the host through to the virtio-rng driver on a guest copy
> of linux.
Why do you need a special device? Isn't a regular serial data stream (i.e.
multiport virtio-console) sufficient? You can then connect that to your source
of random data (e.g. /dev/random) without requiring any changes to qemu.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-11 22:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-11 21:31 [Qemu-devel] virtio-rng Ian Molton
2009-11-11 22:57 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2009-11-16 9:45 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-11-16 12:28 ` Ian Molton
2009-11-16 13:10 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-11-16 17:58 ` Ian Molton
2009-11-16 22:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-16 23:16 ` Ian Molton
2009-11-16 23:35 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-17 9:18 ` Ian Molton
2009-11-17 9:24 ` Amit Shah
[not found] ` <4B02705A.5060400@collabora.co.uk>
[not found] ` <20091117095456.GA11125@amit-x200.redhat.com>
[not found] ` <4B0278B0.1080505@collabora.co.uk>
[not found] ` <20091117102837.GA11493@amit-x200.redhat.com>
2009-11-17 11:10 ` Ian Molton
2009-11-17 11:25 ` Amit Shah
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