From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Sarah Newman <srn@prgmr.com>, xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: David Scott <dave@recoil.org>
Subject: Re: PV random device
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 10:15:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1444122911.5302.64.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <561324FD.8010909@prgmr.com>
On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 18:33 -0700, Sarah Newman wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> We would like to use something like virtio-rng
> http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Features-Done/VirtIORNG with PVM domUs and
> since the wiki page on virtio
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Virtio_On_Xen says the wiki page is out of date,
> what is the current status?
>
> Would a native xen driver be likely to be accepted upstream?
My two pence is that this seems like a reasonable application of the
channels[0] interface to provide a simple device that when read spits out
random bytes, which can then be fed into rngd (or whatever it is called).
> If so, is there anyone already working on one?
It comes up occasionally, most recently was
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-02/msg00003.html . CCing
Dave.
Cheers,
Ian.
[0] http://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/channel.txt
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-06 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-06 1:33 PV random device Sarah Newman
2015-10-06 3:35 ` Andy Smith
2015-10-06 4:12 ` Sarah Newman
2015-10-06 4:29 ` Andy Smith
2015-10-06 4:34 ` Sarah Newman
2015-10-06 4:50 ` Steven Haigh
2015-10-06 5:18 ` Andy Smith
2015-10-06 7:40 ` Sarah Newman
2015-10-06 9:15 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
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