Libvirt - Enable support for RNG device
Virtio RNG is a paravirtual random number generator device, allows the host to inject entropy into guests, in order to fill its entropy pool. /dev/random will be used as a default entropy source on the host, however, a physical HW RNG device could be configured as well.
Other hypervisors will be able to set their own supported models of RNG devices using the hw_rng property in image metadata.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Russell Bryant
- Priority:
- Low
- Drafter:
- Vladik Romanovsky
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Vladik Romanovsky
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for icehouse
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
-
2014.1
- Started by
- Russell Bryant
- Completed by
- Russell Bryant
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