On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 08:55:52AM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > Qemu's implementation of virtio RNG supports rate limiting of the > entropy used. This patch exposes the option to tune this functionality. > > This patch is based on qemu commit 904d6f588063fb5ad2b61998acdf1e73fb4 > > The rate limiting is exported in the XML as: > <devices> > ... > <rng model='virtio'> > <rate period='1234'>4321</rate> You need to update this example > <backend model='random'/> > </rng> > ... > --- > > Notes: > Version 6: > - use just attributes in XML instead of mixed attribute/contents > - switch rate unit to bytes > - tweak the rest to comply with the changes > Version 5: > - adjust after forbiding arbitrary name passthrough > - rebase to master > Version 4: > - Reword docs > - state it is available since 1.0.4 as the tree is frozen and this was actually never acked before > Version 3: > - State the time unit in docs > Version 2: > - qemu uses bytes/period, adapt the value according to that > > docs/formatdomain.html.in | 13 +++++++++++++ > docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- > src/conf/domain_conf.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ > src/conf/domain_conf.h | 2 ++ > src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 8 ++++++++ > .../qemuxml2argv-virtio-rng-random.args | 2 +- > .../qemuxml2argv-virtio-rng-random.xml | 1 + > 7 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) ACK with example in the commit message fixed Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list