[release-notes] guest entropy with Virtio RNG
Pete Travis
immanetize at fedoraproject.org
Sun May 12 18:16:31 UTC 2013
commit 4efacc76a76a30e48241ba15b5f55348d1b4633f
Author: Pete Travis <immanetize at fedoraproject.org>
Date: Sun May 12 12:05:46 2013 -0600
guest entropy with Virtio RNG
en-US/Virtualization.xml | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/en-US/Virtualization.xml b/en-US/Virtualization.xml
index 02b541c..5c0aebf 100644
--- a/en-US/Virtualization.xml
+++ b/en-US/Virtualization.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,26 @@
</simplelist>
</para>
</section>
-
+
+ <section>
+ <title><function>Virtio</function> <literal>Random Number Generator</literal></title>
+ <para>
+ KVM and libvirt now support a paravirtual random number generator device. This can be used to prevent entropy starvation in virtual machines.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ These links document and explain Virtio RNG:
+ <simplelist>
+ <member><ulink url="http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Features/VirtIORNG" /></member>
+ <member><ulink url="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-05/msg02235.html" /></member>
+ <member><ulink url="https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-January/msg00775.html" /></member>
+ <member><ulink url="https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-December/msg00937.html" /></member>
+ <member><ulink url="http://egd.sourceforge.net/" /></member>
+ <member><ulink url="http://log.amitshah.net/2013/01/about-random-numbers-and-virtual-machines/" /></member>
+ <member><ulink url="https://lwn.net/Articles/525459/" /></member>
+ </simplelist>
+ </para>
</section>
+
+</section>
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