Re: [PATCH] Support for virtio random device

2013-01-28 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Damien Miller wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, Stefan Fritsch wrote: Hi, qemu 1.3 has added a virtio entropy device. Here is a driver for it. Comments? OKs? As the entropy reserve of the host may not be unlimited, the OpenBSD guest should only ask for entropy when it actually

Re: [PATCH] Support for virtio random device

2013-01-27 Thread Damien Miller
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > Hi, > > qemu 1.3 has added a virtio entropy device. Here is a driver for it. > Comments? > OKs? > > As the entropy reserve of the host may not be unlimited, the OpenBSD guest > should only ask for entropy when it actually needs it. Would it make sense

Re: [PATCH] Support for virtio random device

2013-01-26 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Saturday 26 January 2013, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > As the entropy reserve of the host may not be unlimited, the > > OpenBSD guest should only ask for entropy when it actually needs > > it. > > If qemu really allows the guest to consume the complete entropy > reserve of the host then that's a bu

Re: [PATCH] Support for virtio random device

2013-01-26 Thread Mark Kettenis
> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:25:32 +0100 (CET) > From: Stefan Fritsch > > Hi, > > qemu 1.3 has added a virtio entropy device. Here is a driver for it. > Comments? OKs? > > As the entropy reserve of the host may not be unlimited, the OpenBSD guest > should only ask for entropy when it actually

Re: [PATCH] Support for virtio random device

2013-01-25 Thread Janne Johansson
2013/1/25 Stefan Fritsch : > qemu 1.3 has added a virtio entropy device. Here is a driver for it. > Comments? OKs? > As the entropy reserve of the host may not be unlimited, the OpenBSD guest > should only ask for entropy when it actually needs it. Would it make sense A few of my oldish ~3 Ghz xe

[PATCH] Support for virtio random device

2013-01-25 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, qemu 1.3 has added a virtio entropy device. Here is a driver for it. Comments? OKs? As the entropy reserve of the host may not be unlimited, the OpenBSD guest should only ask for entropy when it actually needs it. Would it make sense to add an API that allows a driver to determine how fu