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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Virt RNG?
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 14:48:53 -0400
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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.

	Jeff



[1] lkml&netdev thread: "[PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' 
last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM"