From 85c0647275b60380e19542d43420184e86418d86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip Sanderson Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:37:29 -0600 Subject: 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 --- Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt index 6ccaf8e..dad9997 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! -- cgit v1.1