On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 11:11 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 02/16/2011 09:54 PM, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I believe I am hitting a problem on one of our Windows 2003 KVM guests were I believe it is running out of Entropy and causing SSL issues. > > > > I see that there is a module called virtio-rng which I believe passes the HW entropy source through to the guest but does this work on Windows as-well ? > > > > AFAIK there is no Windows driver for virtio-rng. Seems like a good > idea. Vadim? virtio-rng driver for windows is not a big deal. IMO, the real problem will be to force Windows to use for CriptoApi. > > > If it doesn't any ideas on how I can increase the amount of entropy being generated on a headless system ? or even monitor entropy on a Windows system ? > > No idea. Maybe you could ask Windows to collect entropy from packet > timings. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
