On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:47:55AM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: > > Thanks for the xen writeup. I hope to be able to stick to xen, which for me > means > having dom0 support. > > >My Pet Project > > > > What's missing? What do you depend on? What's needed before you > > can use mainline Xen as your sole Xen kernel? > > What has been missing from the start, and is becoming more and more > painful, is > the lack of entropy/random in the guests. Having openssh not start due to > not > having entropy, or have openswan block way too long is causing me troubles. > > Somehow linking the guests random to the host's random seems to be a very > useful feature to have, since all the entropy gathering device drivers are > not present in guests. It has already been tried - at least for lguest - rusty's VirtIO-RNG patch in this thread... http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/5/15/1836574 http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/5/16/1841664 No idea, offhand, if that was ever merged. Using it would involve creating a Xen VirtIO transport I guess. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
