Re: [libvirt-users] Efficacy of jitterentropy RNG on qemu-kvm Guests

Martin Kletzander: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 08:33:00PM +0000, procmem wrote: >> Hello. I'm a distro maintainer and was wondering about the efficacy of >> entropy daemons like haveged and jitterentropyd in qemu-kvm. One of the >> authors of haveged [0] pointed out if the hardware cycles counter is >> emulated and deterministic, and thus predictible. He therefore does not >> recommend using HAVEGE on those systems. Is this the case with KVM's >> counters? >> > > I don't know the answer.  But try asking on qemu-discuss(a)nongnu.org or > maybe > KVM-related ML. > > Have a nice day, > Martin > Thanks. Yes I had already sent there. Waiting patiently for an answer :)