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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "--[ UxBoD ]--" <uxbod@splatnix.net>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Vadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: KVM, Entropy and Windows
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:11:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5CE63B.9030906@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004882f9-9a99-4312-a7c5-c307398cd297@office.splatnix.net>

On 02/16/2011 09:54 PM, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I believe I am hitting a problem on one of our Windows 2003 KVM guests were I believe it is running out of Entropy and causing SSL issues.
>
> I see that there is a module called virtio-rng which I believe passes the HW entropy source through to the guest but does this work on Windows as-well ?
>

AFAIK there is no Windows driver for virtio-rng.  Seems like a good 
idea.  Vadim?

> If it doesn't any ideas on how I can increase the amount of entropy being generated on a headless system ? or even monitor entropy on a Windows system ?

No idea.  Maybe you could ask Windows to collect entropy from packet 
timings.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-17  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-16 19:54 KVM, Entropy and Windows --[ UxBoD ]--
2011-02-17  9:11 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-02-17 10:09   ` Vadim Rozenfeld
2011-02-17 10:37     ` Dor Laor
2011-02-17 11:09       ` Vadim Rozenfeld

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