From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Ian Molton <ian.molton@collabora.co.uk>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Socket reconnection.
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:32:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091206143234.GA22994@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B15042F.1060101@collabora.co.uk>
Ian Molton wrote:
> Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> > I'm a bit puzzled.
> >
> > Why isn't virtio-rng getting entropy from /dev/random on the host?
>
> /dev/random may not be available.
Understood on a non-Linux host.
> Besides, not all entropy comes from /dev/random.
On a Linux host, why isn't rngd simply injecting it's entropy into
/dev/random where it would be more convenient to access? (No need for
socket reconnection code, for example).
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-06 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-26 0:31 [Qemu-devel] Socket reconnection Ian Molton
2009-11-26 9:21 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-11-27 9:01 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-12-01 11:55 ` Ian Molton
2009-12-06 14:32 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-12-06 16:33 ` Ian Molton
2009-12-07 2:29 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-12-07 9:29 ` Ian Molton
2009-11-30 17:18 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-01 11:54 ` Ian Molton
2009-12-01 14:38 ` Krumme, Chris
2009-12-01 18:29 ` Ian Molton
2009-12-01 18:54 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-02 10:40 ` Ian Molton
2009-12-02 12:04 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-12-02 19:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2009-12-02 22:35 ` Krumme, Chris
2009-12-03 10:04 ` Ian Molton
2009-12-03 10:23 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-12-03 14:22 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-03 18:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH]Socket reconnection Ian Molton
2009-12-05 22:03 ` Ian Molton
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