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On Jul 16, 2013 10:20 AM, "Digimer" <<a href="mailto:lists@alteeve.ca">lists@alteeve.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 16/07/13 06:30, Stefano Stabellini wrote:<br>
> > On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Digimer wrote:<br>
> >> On 15/07/13 07:04, Stefano Stabellini wrote:<br>
> >>> On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, Digimer wrote:<br>
> >>>> Hi all,<br>
> >>>><br>
> >>>> I've been curious about using hardware true random number generators<br>
> >>>> in my VM clusters. This got me wondering about the VM's /dev/random<br>
> >>>> source... If I setup a hardware TRNG on the host, would the VM's also<br>
> >>>> benefit from it?<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> Xen VMs would not be able to benefit from it. I don't know about KVM.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Would you be able to elaborate on why not? I know Xen and KVM differ, but this<br>
> >> is not a topic I have seen discussed at all before, so any insight would be<br>
> >> helpful and appreciated! :)<br>
> ><br>
> > Because we don't have a paravirtualized interface to export the<br>
> > randomness to the guest.<br>
> > It would be a nice small little project to do that though.<br>
> ><br>
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> Ah, ok. I'm an admin, not a programmer, so I am not sure what would be<br>
> needed. Given how popular VMs are now, I can imagine it would be a nice<br>
> feature to have. If it's a "small" project, then all the better! :)<br>
><br>
> Thanks!<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Digimer<br>
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<p dir="ltr">There is such a thing, see <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virtio_RNG">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virtio_RNG</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">--Pete</p>