Bug 1001764 - RFE: Add support for virtio-rng device
Summary: RFE: Add support for virtio-rng device
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: virt-manager
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Cole Robinson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-08-27 17:10 UTC by Amit Shah
Modified: 2013-09-25 13:35 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-09-25 13:35:09 UTC
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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
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