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Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: virtio-rng and /dev/urandom

From: H. Peter Anvin
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: virtio-rng and /dev/urandom
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 17:20:05 -0700
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On 04/16/16 01:31, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> Right, but there's always the point about people that use heterogeneous
> hosts and cannot pass rdrand/rdseed to the guest.  For these, we should
> add a QEMU driver that uses rdrand/rdseed, and thus decouples virtio-rng
> from the host /dev/* completely.
> 

You should be able to crib the code from rngd (rng-tools) pretty much
verbatim.

        -hpa
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