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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Hubert Kario <hkario@redhat.com>, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>,
	Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>,
	libvirt-list@redhat.com, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>,
	"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>,
	Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
	mik@miknet.net, jjaburek@redhat.com, sgrubb@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: virtio-rng and /dev/urandom
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 17:20:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57142835.7090603@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1808605284.5070717.1460795498043.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com>

On 04/16/16 01:31, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> Right, but there's always the point about people that use heterogeneous
> hosts and cannot pass rdrand/rdseed to the guest.  For these, we should
> add a QEMU driver that uses rdrand/rdseed, and thus decouples virtio-rng
> from the host /dev/* completely.
> 

You should be able to crib the code from rngd (rng-tools) pretty much
verbatim.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-18  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-15 10:41 [Qemu-devel] RFC: virtio-rng and /dev/urandom Cole Robinson
2016-04-15 11:46 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-15 11:54   ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-20 22:48   ` [Qemu-devel] " Steve Grubb
2016-04-15 15:47 ` Eric Blake
2016-04-15 16:10   ` Hubert Kario
2016-04-16  0:46     ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-04-16  0:51     ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-04-16  8:31       ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-18  0:20         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2016-04-18  0:27         ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-04-18 11:21           ` Hubert Kario
2016-04-18 11:00       ` Hubert Kario
2016-04-19 11:30   ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Yaniv Kaul
2016-04-15 15:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " H. Peter Anvin
2016-04-15 16:06   ` Hubert Kario
2016-04-18  9:28   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2016-04-18  9:46     ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-04-18 11:07       ` Hubert Kario
2016-04-18 11:26         ` Daniel P. Berrange
2016-04-18 21:45           ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-04-20 22:21 ` Cole Robinson

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