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From: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	virtualization@lists.osdl.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: Virt RNG?
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 23:26:18 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1210883178.24261.914.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <482C94AF.2010202@goop.org>


On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 20:53 +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Has anyone yet written a "hw" RNG module for virt, that reads the host's 
> > random number pool?
> >
> > All this talk[1] about IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM in network drivers reminds me 
> > that virt guest instances should be grabbing random numbers from the 
> > host, especially if the host has a hardware RNG.
> 
> It was actually one of the first device types proposed for what would 
> become virtio, but as far as I know there has been no work on such a 
> device.  It certainly makes lots of sense.
> 

There was a virtio-rng device:
http://www.mail-archive.com/virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org/msg02902.html

Need to search what happened to it in Rusty's queues.
>     J
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-15 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-15 18:48 Virt RNG? Jeff Garzik
2008-05-15 19:53 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-15 20:26   ` Dor Laor [this message]
2008-05-15 20:31 ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-05-15 20:44   ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-15 20:43 ` Jeff Dike
2008-05-15 23:43 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-16  0:07   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-05-16  5:31   ` [PATCH 1/2] virtio: hardware random device Rusty Russell
     [not found]   ` <200805161531.44725.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-05-16  5:39     ` [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support Rusty Russell
2008-05-16  5:39     ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-16  7:31     ` [PATCH 1/2] virtio: hardware random device Christian Borntraeger
     [not found]     ` <200805161539.59739.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-05-16 10:49       ` [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support Johannes Berg
     [not found]       ` <1210934981.6381.1.camel@johannes.berg>
2008-05-16 20:25         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-17  4:46         ` Rusty Russell
     [not found]         ` <200805171446.39814.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-05-17  4:50           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-17  6:28             ` Rusty Russell
     [not found]             ` <200805171628.03801.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-05-17  6:43               ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-17  7:43                 ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-05-17 15:56                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-17  7:47               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-17 15:57               ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]               ` <482E8D75.10606@goop.org>
2008-05-19  9:05                 ` Rusty Russell
     [not found]                 ` <200805191905.11452.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-05-19  9:10                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
     [not found]                   ` <48314419.4080606@goop.org>
2008-05-19  9:28                     ` Rusty Russell
     [not found]                     ` <200805191928.13043.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-05-19  9:45                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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