[Fedora-xen] [Xen-devel] State of Xen in upstream Linux
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Fri Aug 1 08:37:04 UTC 2008
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.
BTW, you should really send your suggestion to xen-devel mailing list to
be sure that Jeremy hears about it, since few of the upstream Xen developers
read this list...
Daniel
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