Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751174AbWEIUqz (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 16:46:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751170AbWEIUqz (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 16:46:55 -0400 Received: from sj-iport-4.cisco.com ([171.68.10.86]:57504 "EHLO sj-iport-4.cisco.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751168AbWEIUqy (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 16:46:54 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.05,107,1146466800"; d="scan'208"; a="1803285523:sNHT1256752042" To: Keir Fraser Cc: Stephen Hemminger , virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Ian Pratt , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Wright , netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver. X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information References: <20060509084945.373541000@sous-sol.org> <20060509085201.446830000@sous-sol.org> <20060509132556.76deaa91@localhost.localdomain> <6a1855ab01a195ac2a28a97c5f966f67@cl.cam.ac.uk> From: Roland Dreier Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 13:46:47 -0700 In-Reply-To: <6a1855ab01a195ac2a28a97c5f966f67@cl.cam.ac.uk> (Keir Fraser's message of "Tue, 9 May 2006 21:26:11 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.18 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 May 2006 20:46:48.0557 (UTC) FILETIME=[B12929D0:01C673A9] Authentication-Results: sj-dkim-4.cisco.com; header.From=rdreier@cisco.com; dkim=pass ( sig from cisco.com verified; ); Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 512 Lines: 12 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/