From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAAPb-0004kQ-5P for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:51:07 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAAPW-0004cV-Mw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:51:06 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52331 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAAPW-0004cD-Fj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:51:02 -0500 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:33616) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NAAPW-0005aE-0s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:51:02 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:51:00 +0000 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-rng Message-ID: <20091116225100.GE12063@shareable.org> References: <4AFB2D4D.8050208@collabora.co.uk> <4B011F38.9070500@redhat.com> <4B014584.6000001@collabora.co.uk> <4B014F2D.3040205@redhat.com> <4B0192BE.4010105@collabora.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B0192BE.4010105@collabora.co.uk> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Ian Molton Cc: Gerd Hoffmann , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Ian Molton wrote: > Heres my patch to virtio-console. The device is now specified like this: > > - -chardev file,path=/path/to/testfile,id=test > - -device virtio-console-pci,chardev=test It'd be nice if some options on the qemu command line (or config file) resulted in the guest kernel getting entropy (assuming a kernel with the appropriate support), without having to run a special entropy-injection daemon in the guest. virtio-console can be used for that, but it'd be necessary to have a way to tell the guest kernel to treat that particular device as an entropy source. Even just a standard name. -- Jamie