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...invented and reinvented by just about every virtualization > vendor for no really good reason. > > I personally recently pointed out that a proper virtualization > solution should handle entropy collection at the lowest level (where > the physical hardware drivers are) and present a hw_rng interface to > the guests. Unfortunately, none of the hardware-based hw_rng > interfaces is sane enough to do that with, which calls for a virtual > driver. > > It would be nice if there was one, and not a dozen, such drivers. > > I would therefore like to propose that the Linu...

...invented and reinvented by just about every virtualization > vendor for no really good reason. > > I personally recently pointed out that a proper virtualization > solution should handle entropy collection at the lowest level (where > the physical hardware drivers are) and present a hw_rng interface to > the guests. Unfortunately, none of the hardware-based hw_rng > interfaces is sane enough to do that with, which calls for a virtual > driver. > > It would be nice if there was one, and not a dozen, such drivers. > > I would therefore like to propose that the Linu...

I think that in hw_rng machines something like this is good (not via-rng): > #!/bin/bash > # > # chkconfig: 2345 20 80 > # description: Rngd daemon\ > # processname: rngd > # pidfile: /var/run/rngd.pid > # config: /etc/sysconfig/rngd > > # source function library > . /etc/init.d/...