From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "H. Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 12:49:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1210934981.6381.1.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200805161539.59739.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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> +/* Our random number generator device reads from /dev/urandom into the Guest's
> + * input buffers. The usual case is that the Guest doesn't want random numbers
> + * and so has no buffers although /dev/urandom is still readable, whereas
> + * console is the reverse.
Is it really a good idea to use the hosts /dev/urandom to fill the
guests /dev/random?
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-16 10:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-15 18:48 Virt RNG? Jeff Garzik
2008-05-15 19:53 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-15 20:26 ` Dor Laor
2008-05-15 20:31 ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-05-15 20:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-15 20:43 ` Jeff Dike
2008-05-15 23:43 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-16 0:07 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-05-16 5:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] virtio: hardware random device Rusty Russell
2008-05-16 5:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support Rusty Russell
2008-05-16 10:49 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2008-05-16 20:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-17 4:46 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-17 4:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-17 6:28 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-17 6:43 ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-17 7:43 ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-05-17 15:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-17 7:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-19 9:05 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-19 9:10 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-19 9:28 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-19 9:45 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-17 15:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-16 7:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] virtio: hardware random device Christian Borntraeger
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