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
