Re: Xen nuisance messages

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:37:28PM -0500, David Howland wrote:
> Running NetBSD 6.0_BETA Xen PV DomU under Debian Squeeze.
> 
> I get this nonstop:
> 
> cprng 359112d1: WARNING insufficient entropy at creation.
> 
> Does a Xen machine have any way to generate entropy?

Not a strong one. The only sources of entropy are xbd and xennet which are
disabled by default (because they're probably not very good) but can
be enabled with rndctl.
AFAIK no interface has been designed to get some entropy from dom0.


> 
> Also, isn't it time to squash this one?:
> 
> pmap_kenter_pa: mapping already present

Should be fixed now (it wasn't really a bug BTW. Someone decided
pmap_kenter_pa should not be used to update mappings, but it's
working fine for that purpose).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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