Subject: lguest: document --rng in example Launcher From: Philip Sanderson 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(+) diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt --- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt +++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt @@ -114,6 +114,11 @@ Running Lguest: See http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Bridge for general information on how to get bridging working. +- 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!