Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] conf: Drop restrictions on rng backend path

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 18:19:25 -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: >  > @@ -6240,9 +6239,9 @@ qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? /dev/null >        <dd> >          <p> >            This backend type expects a non-blocking character device as input. > -          The only accepted paths are /dev/random and /dev/hwrng. The file > -          name is specified as contents of the <code>backend</code> element. > -          When no file name is specified the hypervisor default is used. > +          The file name is specified as contents of the > +          <code>backend</code> element. When no file name is specified the > +          this defaults to /dev/random. I'd rather keep the "hypervisor default" wording. /dev/urandom is in no way platform or hypervisor agnostic. You may add though that for qemu driver the default indeed is /dev/random.