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...: crw-------. 1 root root 10, 183 Oct 11 21:28 /dev/hwrng and VM fails, complains like this: virsh # start volatile-work6 error: Failed to start domain volatile-work6 error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2016-10-19T09:42:05.988142Z qemu-kvm: -object rng-random,id=objrng0,filename=/dev/hwrng: Could not open '/dev/hwrng': Permission denied which reads logical. Now - is this normal that hwrng is created with these permissions? And if yes then how to pass-through it to the VMs? How to aid VMs with hardware random numbers generator? many thanks. L

...9;1234'/> </backend> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x09' function='0x0'/> </rng> qemu command line: -chardev udp,id=charrng0,host=127.0.0.1,port=1234,localaddr=,localport=1234 -object rng-egd,id=objrng0,chardev=charrng0 -device virtio-rng-pci,rng=objrng0,id=rng0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x9 In my understanding the purpose of the rng device on guest is to provide guest a hardware RNG device /dev/hwrng which obtain seeds from the host. The source can be /dev/random on host, then the xml will be: <rng mod...

...charchannel0,fd=41,server,nowait -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=org.qemu.guest_agent.0 -chardev pty,id=charconsole0 -device virtconsole,chardev=charconsole0,id=console0 -device cirrus-vga,id=video0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -object rng-random,id=objrng0,filename=/dev/urandom -device virtio-rng-pci,rng=objrng0,id=rng0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x9 -sandbox on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,resourcecontrol=deny -msg timestamp=on 2020-05-13 08:56:51.643+0000: Domain id=1 is tainted: high-privileges 2020-05-13 08:56:51.643+0000: Domain id=1 i...

Greetings, I have two machines running the same distro, both running qemu 5.1.0, one runs libvirt 6.7.0, the other 6.8.0. I've decided to test the viability of passing through my sata cdrom into a vm, so I went to the libvirt docs, read a bit and added the following to a debian10 uefi vm running on libvirt 6.8.0: <controller type='scsi' index='0'

...ce hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 \ -drive file=/dev/sg5,if=none,format=raw,id=drive-hostdev0,readonly=on \ -device scsi-generic,bus=scsi0.0,channel=0,scsi-id=0,lun=0,drive=drive-hostdev0,id=hostdev0 \ -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.5,addr=0x0 \ -object rng-random,id=objrng0,filename=/dev/urandom \ -device virtio-rng-pci,rng=objrng0,id=rng0,bus=pci.6,addr=0x0 \ -sandbox on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,resourcecontrol=deny \ -msg timestamp=on the bad one: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \ -name guest=streamer-vm-q35,debug-threads=on \ -S \ -object secret...