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From: Ian Molton <ian.molton@collabora.co.uk>
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To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
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Jamie Lokier wrote:

> I'm a bit puzzled.
> 
> Why isn't virtio-rng getting entropy from /dev/random on the host?

/dev/random may not be available. Besides, not all entropy comes from
/dev/random.

-Ian