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>
diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt
index 6ccaf8e..dad9997 100644
--- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt
+++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt
@@ -117,6 +117,11 @@
for general information on how to get bridging to work.
+- 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.
+
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