Re: [uml-user] entropy hole in UML instances too

[richard -r. w. <ric...@gm...>]

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Paolo Giarrusso <p.g...@gm...> wrote:

Nice to hear from you Paolo, are you planning to work again on UML? :)

> Yep - entropy comes from hardware interrupts, and UML doesn't have
> enough such interrupts, as far as I remember; I think interrupts might
> be individually marked as usable to produce entropy. I remember that
> before I stopped development, a UML driver was introduced to allow UML
> to feed on the host's entropy by reading the host's /dev/random.

It's CONFIG_UML_RANDOM.
Toralf, is it enabled in your config?

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Thanks,
//richard