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[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device dri

To: ak@xxxxxxx (Andi Kleen)
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 10:33:59 +1000
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Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> But if sampling virtual events for randomness is really unsafe (is it 
> really?) then native guests in Xen would also get bad random numbers
> and this would need to be somehow addressed.

Good point.  I wonder what VMWare does in this situation.
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