2013/1/25 Stefan Fritsch <[email protected]>: > 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 xeon boxes give my obsd OSes 180MB/s from the random device, so in that regard an openbsd guest would probably produce a decent amount already. But it won't hurt having yet another input for the pool to mix with, I guess. > to add an API that allows a driver to determine how full the entropy queue > is? This could also be used by some hardware drivers to avoid polling for > entropy if not necessary. E.g. amdpm does the polling in every timer tick, > which is wasteful. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
