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| author | Philip Sanderson <philip.k.sanderson@gmail.com> | 2011-01-20 21:37:29 -0600 |
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| committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2011-01-20 21:37:29 +1030 |
| commit | 85c0647275b60380e19542d43420184e86418d86 (patch) | |
| tree | 1601fbba5747751bc0f19a0f80cf95d34a6e4143 /Documentation/lguest | |
| parent | 5230ff0cccb0611830bb02b097535868df02752a (diff) | |
| download | lwn-85c0647275b60380e19542d43420184e86418d86.tar.gz lwn-85c0647275b60380e19542d43420184e86418d86.zip | |
lguest: document --rng in example Launcher
Rusty Russell wrote:
> Ah, it will appear as /dev/hwrng. It's a weirdness of Linux that our actual
> hardware number generators are not wired up to /dev/random...
Reflected this in the documentation, thanks :-)
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt index 6ccaf8e1a00e..dad99978a6a8 100644 --- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt +++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt @@ -117,6 +117,11 @@ Running Lguest: for general information on how to get bridging to work. +- Random number generation. Using the --rng option will provide a + /dev/hwrng in the guest that will read from the host's /dev/random. + Use this option in conjunction with rng-tools (see ../hw_random.txt) + to provide entropy to the guest kernel's /dev/random. + There is a helpful mailing list at http://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/lguest Good luck! |