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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.
FromRoland Dreier <>
DateTue, 09 May 2006 13:46:47 -0700
    Keir> Where should we get our entropy from in a VM environment?
Keir> Leaving the pool empty can cause processes to hang.

You could have something like a virtual HW RNG driver (with a frontend
and backend), which steals from the dom0 /dev/random pool.

- R.
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