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From: "roland" <for_spam@gmx.de>
To: Chris Snyder <csnyder@mvpsoft.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
	blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] Sources of entropy?
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 16:58:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <084601c440d6$67d64090$2000000a@schlepptopp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 40AFB5AB.2060204@mvpsoft.com

hi, 
afaik, uml still has a general problem with /dev/random entropy.
please read:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=user-mode-linux-devel&m=107914271712404&w=2

proxying /dev/random from the host sounds like a good solution.
is there work in progress ?

regards
roland


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Snyder" <csnyder@mvpsoft.com>
To: <user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 10:18 PM
Subject: [uml-user] Sources of entropy?


> I'm having a problem with a UML that I have set up as a Kerberos server: 
> starting the Kerberos Admin Daemon takes around ten minutes because 
> there is very little entropy available in the UML, making reads from 
> /dev/random block. Has anyone else ran into this problem? How can I most 
> effectively deal with this? Thanks in advance.
> 
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2004-05-23 14:58 ` roland [this message]
2004-05-27 12:06   ` [uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] Sources of entropy? Henrik Nordstrom

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