Re: [CentOS-virt] Would a hardware TRNG benefit VMs?

On 15/07/13 07:04, Stefano Stabellini wrote:

On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, Digimer wrote:

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Hi all,

I've been curious about using hardware true random number generators

in my VM clusters. This got me wondering about the VM's /dev/random source... If I setup a hardware TRNG on the host, would the VM's also benefit from it?

Xen VMs would not be able to benefit from it. I don't know about KVM.

Would you be able to elaborate on why not? I know Xen and KVM differ, but this is not a topic I have seen discussed at all before, so any insight would be helpful and appreciated! :)

digimer