On Jul 16, 2013 10:20 AM, "Digimer" <lists at alteeve.ca> wrote: > > On 16/07/13 06:30, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Digimer wrote: > >> On 15/07/13 07:04, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > >>> On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, Digimer wrote: > >>>> 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! :) > > > > Because we don't have a paravirtualized interface to export the > > randomness to the guest. > > It would be a nice small little project to do that though. > > > > Ah, ok. I'm an admin, not a programmer, so I am not sure what would be > needed. Given how popular VMs are now, I can imagine it would be a nice > feature to have. If it's a "small" project, then all the better! :) > > Thanks! > > -- > Digimer > Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ > What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without > access to education? > There is such a thing, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virtio_RNG --Pete -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20130716/d06b6e43/attachment-0006.html>