Re: [libvirt] virtio-rng and fd passing

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini(a)redhat.com&gt; writes: > Il 02/03/2013 04:13, Anthony Liguori ha scritto: >> There is no valid use-case of rng-random other than using /dev/random. >> In fact, it was probably a mistake to even allow a filename to be >> specified because it lets people do silly things (like /dev/urandom). >> >> If you want anything other than /dev/random, you should use rng-egd. > > /dev/hwrng makes sense too. Good point. Perhaps we should issue a warning when anything is used other than /dev/random or /dev/hwrng to discourage people from doing the wrong thing. I completely understand the confusion and I think we should try a bit harder to prevent people from getting it wrong.