Re: Xen nuisance messages

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:08:32PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 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.

What's wrong with xbd?  Only the dom0 can see those numbers, and if it wants
to tamper with the domU the problem is hopeless anyway.

Thor