Re: [Qemu-devel] Socket reconnection.

[Jamie Lokier]

Ian Molton wrote:
> Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 
> > I'm a bit puzzled.
> > 
> > Why isn't virtio-rng getting entropy from /dev/random on the host?
> 
> /dev/random may not be available.

Understood on a non-Linux host.

> Besides, not all entropy comes from /dev/random.

On a Linux host, why isn't rngd simply injecting it's entropy into
/dev/random where it would be more convenient to access?  (No need for
socket reconnection code, for example).

-- Jamie