Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965087AbWEKAev (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 20:34:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965111AbWEKAeu (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 20:34:50 -0400 Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:46352 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965087AbWEKAeu (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 20:34:50 -0400 From: Herbert Xu To: ak@suse.de (Andi Kleen) Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver. Cc: rdreier@cisco.com, Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk, shemminger@osdl.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, ian.pratt@xensource.com, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Organization: Core In-Reply-To: <200605102028.22974.ak@suse.de> X-Newsgroups: apana.lists.os.linux.kernel,apana.lists.os.linux.netdev,apana.lists.os.xen.devel User-Agent: tin/1.7.4-20040225 ("Benbecula") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.27-hx-1-686-smp (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 10:33:59 +1000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 738 Lines: 17 Andi Kleen wrote: > > But if sampling virtual events for randomness is really unsafe (is it > really?) then native guests in Xen would also get bad random numbers > and this would need to be somehow addressed. Good point. I wonder what VMWare does in this situation. -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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/