On 9 May 2006, at 21:25, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
+ memcpy(netdev->dev_addr, info->mac, ETH_ALEN);
+ network_connect(netdev);
+ info->irq = bind_evtchn_to_irqhandler(
+ info->evtchn, netif_int, SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM,
netdev->name,
This doesn't look like a real random entropy source. packets
arriving from another domain are easily timed.
Where should we get our entropy from in a VM environment? Leaving the
pool empty can cause processes to hang.
-- Keir
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