Re: [Qemu-devel] Socket reconnection.

[Jamie Lokier]

Ian Molton wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I need my source of data for virtio-rng to be reliable - IOW. if the
> server dies and comes back up, I want qemu to reconnect and suck down
> fresh entropy, rather than hand the rngd process on the guest.
> 
> I'm using the chardev 'socket' type to make the connection to the host.
> 
> Would a patch adding (optional) auto-reconnect (with a back-off delay)
> to the socket chardev be acceptable ?
> 
> If not, I'll have to cook up a thread to handle EGD requests, but that
> seems perverse...

I'm a bit puzzled.

Why isn't virtio-rng getting entropy from /dev/random on the host?

-- Jamie