Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] add paravirtualization hwrng support (v2)

2012-10-31 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 06:24:27PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 10/30/2012 04:02 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > > >My take away from all of the various discussions on what the Right Way to > >use virtio-rng is: > > > > 1) /dev/random should always be used as the entropy source (I've left it >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] add paravirtualization hwrng support (v2)

2012-10-30 Thread Anthony Liguori
"H. Peter Anvin" writes: > On 10/30/2012 04:02 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >> My take away from all of the various discussions on what the Right Way to >> use virtio-rng is: >> >> 1) /dev/random should always be used as the entropy source (I've left it >> configurable though) >> >> 2)

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] add paravirtualization hwrng support (v2)

2012-10-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 10/30/2012 04:02 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: My take away from all of the various discussions on what the Right Way to use virtio-rng is: 1) /dev/random should always be used as the entropy source (I've left it configurable though) 2) I think the Right Way to configure virtio-rng is

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] add paravirtualization hwrng support (v2)

2012-10-30 Thread Anthony Liguori
Hi, This series implements the backend and frontend infrastructure for virtio-rng. This is similar to previous series sent out by both Amit and myself although it has been trimmed down considerably. In terms of backends, a file and EGD backend are supported. The file defaults to /dev/random base