From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-rng and fd passing
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:05:09 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ngs9ou2.fsf@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5131EF32.5010808@redhat.com>
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
> Il 02/03/2013 04:13, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>> There is no valid use-case of rng-random other than using /dev/random.
>> In fact, it was probably a mistake to even allow a filename to be
>> specified because it lets people do silly things (like /dev/urandom).
>>
>> If you want anything other than /dev/random, you should use rng-egd.
>
> /dev/hwrng makes sense too.
Good point. Perhaps we should issue a warning when anything is used
other than /dev/random or /dev/hwrng to discourage people from doing the
wrong thing. I completely understand the confusion and I think we
should try a bit harder to prevent people from getting it wrong.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
> Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-03 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2013-03-01 9:51 ` [Qemu-devel] virtio-rng and fd passing Paolo Bonzini
2013-03-04 4:29 ` Amit Shah
2013-03-06 6:20 ` Amit Shah
2013-03-01 19:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-01 20:13 ` Stefan Berger
2013-03-01 20:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-01 20:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-03-01 20:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-03-01 20:34 ` Stefan Berger
2013-03-01 21:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-03-01 21:13 ` Eric Blake
2013-03-01 23:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-03-01 23:14 ` Eric Blake
2013-03-01 23:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-03-02 0:29 ` Eric Blake
2013-03-02 3:13 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-03-02 12:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-03-03 21:05 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2013-03-04 21:57 ` Eric Blake
2013-03-04 22:24 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-03-04 22:35 ` Eric Blake
2013-03-05 4:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-04 21:54 ` Eric Blake
2013-03-02 0:34 ` Stefan Berger
2013-03-02 3:17 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-03-02 3:34 ` Stefan Berger
2013-03-03 21:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-03-04 15:27 ` Corey Bryant
2013-03-04 10:29 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2013-03-04 15:55 ` Corey Bryant
2013-03-01 22:59 ` Peter Krempa
2013-03-01 23:14 ` Anthony Liguori
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