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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:05:09 -0600
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-rng and fd passing
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> 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.

Good point.  Perhaps we should issue a warning when anything is used
other than /dev/random or /dev/hwrng to discourage people from doing the
wrong thing.  I completely understand the confusion and I think we
should try a bit harder to prevent people from getting it wrong.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Paolo