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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 13:46:47 -0700
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To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
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    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.