From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33392) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UBlTF-00039I-3S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 02 Mar 2013 07:23:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UBlTE-00036k-8G for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 02 Mar 2013 07:23:21 -0500 Received: from mail-wg0-f47.google.com ([74.125.82.47]:47097) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UBlTE-00036c-1Z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 02 Mar 2013 07:23:20 -0500 Received: by mail-wg0-f47.google.com with SMTP id dr13so3058460wgb.26 for ; Sat, 02 Mar 2013 04:23:19 -0800 (PST) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <5131EF32.5010808@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 13:23:14 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <512FF819.7050505@redhat.com> <87k3pqzy2y.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <513110D3.5030503@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <87d2vig75m.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <51311A13.6030205@redhat.com> <87r4jy90wt.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <51313660.5010001@redhat.com> <87vc9apt7r.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <513147E4.5030005@redhat.com> <87txouv6hp.fsf@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <87txouv6hp.fsf@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-rng and fd passing List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , Stefan Berger Il 02/03/2013 04:13, Anthony Liguori ha scritto: > There is no valid use-case of rng-random other than using /dev/random. > In fact, it was probably a mistake to even allow a filename to be > specified because it lets people do silly things (like /dev/urandom). > > If you want anything other than /dev/random, you should use rng-egd. /dev/hwrng makes sense too. Paolo