From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757792AbYEOStP (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 14:49:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753558AbYEOSs7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 14:48:59 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:35809 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753040AbYEOSs6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 14:48:58 -0400 Message-ID: <482C8595.5030509@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 14:48:53 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML , virtualization@lists.osdl.org CC: Rusty Russell , jeremy@xensource.com, Herbert Xu , Avi Kivity Subject: Virt RNG? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.4 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Has anyone yet written a "hw" RNG module for virt, that reads the host's random number pool? All this talk[1] about IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM in network drivers reminds me that virt guest instances should be grabbing random numbers from the host, especially if the host has a hardware RNG. Jeff [1] lkml&netdev thread: "[PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM"