[Fedora-xen] [Xen-devel] State of Xen in upstream Linux

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

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.

It's in 2.6.26:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f7f510ec195781c857ab76366a3e1c59e1caae42

LWN.net article:
http://lwn.net/Articles/283103/

HTH

CU
knurd