On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 10:43 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: > Aurelien Jarno writes: > > Hi, > > > > I have noticed that virtio-rng only returns zero for kernels >= 2.6.33 > > built with CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=m. This is a bit much too predictable for a > > random generator ;-). > > Wow. Fortunately, all of SLES, RHEL, Ubuntu or Fedora set > CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=y. What do they know that we don't? > > Oops, looks like Debian testing: config-3.2.0-4-amd64:CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=m [...] *Groan*. I'll change the configuration for now, but trust this will be fixed in virtio-rng later. Thanks for letting me know. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.