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author | Philip Sanderson <philip.k.sanderson@gmail.com> | 2011-01-20 22:37:29 -0500 |
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committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2011-01-20 06:07:29 -0500 |
commit | 85c0647275b60380e19542d43420184e86418d86 (patch) | |
tree | 1601fbba5747751bc0f19a0f80cf95d34a6e4143 /Documentation | |
parent | 5230ff0cccb0611830bb02b097535868df02752a (diff) |
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: | |||
117 | 117 | ||
118 | for general information on how to get bridging to work. | 118 | for general information on how to get bridging to work. |
119 | 119 | ||
120 | - Random number generation. Using the --rng option will provide a | ||
121 | /dev/hwrng in the guest that will read from the host's /dev/random. | ||
122 | Use this option in conjunction with rng-tools (see ../hw_random.txt) | ||
123 | to provide entropy to the guest kernel's /dev/random. | ||
124 | |||
120 | There is a helpful mailing list at http://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/lguest | 125 | There is a helpful mailing list at http://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/lguest |
121 | 126 | ||
122 | Good luck! | 127 | Good luck! |