From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: PV random device Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 10:15:11 +0100 Message-ID: <1444122911.5302.64.camel@citrix.com> References: <561324FD.8010909@prgmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta3.messagelabs.com ([195.245.230.39]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjOLC-0005qe-5J for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 09:15:22 +0000 In-Reply-To: <561324FD.8010909@prgmr.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Sarah Newman , xen-devel Cc: David Scott List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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 http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Virtio_On_Xen says the wiki page is out of date, 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