Re: KVM, Entropy and Windows

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On 02/17/2011 12:09 PM, Vadim Rozenfeld wrote:
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.

What's the implication of it? good or bad?
Do you know what hyper-v is doing for it?


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.



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