Bug 1001764

Summary: RFE: Add support for virtio-rng device
Product: [Community] Virtualization Tools Reporter: Amit Shah <amit.shah>
Component: virt-managerAssignee: Cole Robinson <crobinso>
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Description Amit Shah 2013-08-27 17:10:34 UTC
Description of problem:

QEMU 1.3 onwards supports the virtio-rng device that can enhance the entropy available to guests via the virtio hwrng driver in Linux guests.  libvirt supports this since 1.0.3.

More information at

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virtio_RNG
http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Features/VirtIORNG

Invocation details at

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Virtualization_VirtioRNG