-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jamie Lokier wrote: > Ian Molton wrote: >> Heres my patch to virtio-console. The device is now specified like this: >> >> - -chardev file,path=/path/to/testfile,id=test >> - -device virtio-console-pci,chardev=test
Note, I think the patch above is broken and slipped by me because I forgot to make clean - I'll doublecheck tomorrow. > It'd be nice if some options on the qemu command line (or config file) > resulted in the guest kernel getting entropy (assuming a kernel with > the appropriate support), without having to run a special > entropy-injection daemon in the guest. How, though - AFAIK linux has no drivers specifically intended to feed entropy into the kernels pool - all the hwrng drivers use a userspace tool to do so. I still intend to submit my virtio-rng driver, if thats what you mean, since it presents the data via the same routes as all the other hw rng sources. I feel this approach has value. - -Ian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJLAd1fAAoJEFIjE1w7L6YHqk4QAKSUMZ9VUJss4YWecDPS52DF Jc7sbDEDuk6bRziRqY8nYMovOzalXgbcfSR3ElhZ4lAEGAGwDP1Qa9IbLh1vf083 UgLZa6FRSWbf5A72+Jl3vLzFnzraWp7Y3m6/qX4mv+NHyBRrBGJ5RwJ7DCTeW8I0 9YScryKZiwPdH2CW+ZUj1+mdbbX/n28mJzUHByRkUgLmKHEXgjNdSRBgtM8/YTia yEO2arQC0Oq+t+r/cjy0B5HTg2Qq+mqFIr9gTIIN8xuVmEuX2mNoT5BSJwGoOWYS +tjTusCXQ/SF1FgGBmNaFddtUTLge1op1gKtGEwsX8QqYmLCo9TBhDzfVZB+U+jM m5ACEHYFCAuYQWOMsajcO78wy6q5yKFE1MJrP69EGR9wtGHNeXVsRQ0EGTqH+rs2 m66+Y0sqzvRvaYqUHSvZMNUf1FWEapkwDLYfJ87twdL1OIqOA5knBMrmZO+rF6bK RKXGeNK/sTnvL0OEXkzeeaw8Em7ykeyVJi9rO9J8XIKH6cE/XC1ab7uNyFrSIGS6 ELvhbrzJ/c5vp/mZQOaMYrj+1+2QAv+0DpF4DDpQOuiuXFR4O6vh+Tz/qjoFxgzF Dkh4ggPmbbRWjYS0XNa0p6zvlLC+cKXKnkrOnsxcbre9CQsl4fgMtoAIqApNdlmB HNoo62fsogVUHaJyJVu7 =eD2D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----