>From 28290b63adc7874ec4c78c8cc25996a111724abe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:41:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] domain: Allow /dev/urandom to be used as a backend source of randomness. Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones --- docs/formatdomain.html.in | 6 ++++-- src/conf/domain_conf.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in index 71ffe75..0a8ef5c 100644 --- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in +++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in @@ -6076,7 +6076,8 @@ qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? /dev/null model attribute. Supported source models are:

@@ -6085,7 +6086,8 @@ qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? /dev/null

This backend type expects a non-blocking character device as input. - The only accepted paths are /dev/random and /dev/hwrng. The file + The only accepted paths are /dev/random, /dev/urandom and + /dev/hwrng. The file name is specified as contents of the backend element. When no file name is specified the hypervisor default is used.

diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c index d5d9ff7..77c268f 100644 --- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c +++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c @@ -11451,6 +11451,7 @@ virDomainRNGDefParseXML(xmlNodePtr node, def->source.file = virXPathString("string(./backend)", ctxt); if (def->source.file && STRNEQ(def->source.file, "/dev/random") && + STRNEQ(def->source.file, "/dev/urandom") && STRNEQ(def->source.file, "/dev/hwrng")) { virReportError(VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR, _("file '%s' is not a supported random source"), -- 2.7.4