On 31.07.2008 17:18, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
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.