From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>,
virtualization@lists.osdl.org,
Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 13:46:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ada1wv3apu0.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6a1855ab01a195ac2a28a97c5f966f67@cl.cam.ac.uk> (Keir Fraser's message of "Tue, 9 May 2006 21:26:11 +0100")
Keir> Where should we get our entropy from in a VM environment?
Keir> Leaving the pool empty can cause processes to hang.
You could have something like a virtual HW RNG driver (with a frontend
and backend), which steals from the dom0 /dev/random pool.
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-09 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-05-09 7:00 ` [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver Chris Wright
2006-05-09 11:55 ` [Xen-devel] " Herbert Xu
2006-05-09 12:43 ` Christian Limpach
2006-05-09 13:01 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-09 13:14 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-09 13:16 ` Christian Limpach
2006-05-09 13:26 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-09 14:00 ` Christian Limpach
2006-05-09 14:30 ` [Xen-devel] " David Boutcher
2006-05-09 23:35 ` Chris Wright
2006-05-09 11:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-05-09 23:37 ` Chris Wright
2006-05-09 18:56 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-05-09 23:39 ` Chris Wright
2006-05-09 20:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-05-09 20:26 ` Keir Fraser
2006-05-09 20:46 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-05-10 18:28 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-11 0:33 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-11 7:49 ` Keir Fraser
2006-05-11 8:04 ` Herbert Xu
2006-05-11 9:47 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-11 16:18 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-05-11 16:48 ` Rick Jones
2006-05-11 17:30 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-09 20:32 ` Chris Wright
2006-05-09 22:41 ` [Xen-devel] " Herbert Xu
2006-05-09 23:51 ` Chris Wright
2006-05-10 6:36 ` Keir Fraser
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