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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

  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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