Re: [CentOS-virt] Would a hardware TRNG benefit VMs?

2013-07-16 Thread Digimer
On 16/07/13 18:01, Pete Travis wrote: > > On Jul 16, 2013 10:20 AM, "Digimer" > wrote: > > > > On 16/07/13 06:30, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Digimer wrote: > > >> On 15/07/13 07:04, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > >>> On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, Digim

Re: [CentOS-virt] Would a hardware TRNG benefit VMs?

2013-07-16 Thread Pete Travis
On Jul 16, 2013 10:20 AM, "Digimer" wrote: > > On 16/07/13 06:30, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Digimer wrote: > >> On 15/07/13 07:04, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > >>> On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, Digimer wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been curious about using hardware t

Re: [CentOS-virt] Would a hardware TRNG benefit VMs?

2013-07-16 Thread Dmitry Mikhailov
On 07/16/2013 10:44 PM, Robert Dinse wrote: >I would second that, wish I had the knowledge to do it, but I can see a > lot of useful applications, never worry about having enough entropy for > various > encryption engines, scientific projects, etc. Try this: http://vanheusden.com/entropybr

Re: [CentOS-virt] Would a hardware TRNG benefit VMs?

2013-07-16 Thread Robert Dinse
I would second that, wish I had the knowledge to do it, but I can see a lot of useful applications, never worry about having enough entropy for various encryption engines, scientific projects, etc. -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Eskimo Nor

Re: [CentOS-virt] Would a hardware TRNG benefit VMs?

2013-07-16 Thread Digimer
On 16/07/13 06:30, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Digimer wrote: >> On 15/07/13 07:04, Stefano Stabellini wrote: >>> On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, Digimer wrote: Hi all, I've been curious about using hardware true random number generators in my VM clusters. This go

Re: [CentOS-virt] No eth0 in dom0 after installing xen

2013-07-16 Thread Mark Nejedlo
After looking at the kernel source, I see that the device ID for the i217 chip is missing from the 3.4.50 kernel, but is present in the 2.6.32 kernel. Looks like I need to open a bug report to have this backported. Mark On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Mark Nejedlo wrote: > There is only one

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Balloon Driver on PVHVM CentOS6

2013-07-16 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:26 PM, David Vrabel wrote: > On 15/07/13 20:44, Rushikesh Jadhav wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > It seems that the xen balloon functionality for guest is not enabled in > > CentOS 3.4.50-8.el6 xen kernel by default via centos-release-xen.x86_64 > > repo. I think this should h

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Balloon Driver on PVHVM CentOS6

2013-07-16 Thread Rushikesh Jadhav
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 07/15/2013 08:44 PM, Rushikesh Jadhav wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > It seems that the xen balloon functionality for guest is not enabled in > > CentOS 3.4.50-8.el6 xen kernel by default via centos-release-xen.x86_64 > > repo. I think this s

Re: [CentOS-virt] No eth0 in dom0 after installing xen

2013-07-16 Thread Mark Nejedlo
There is only one physical ethernet interface; no ethX is found under Xen. The MAC in ifcfg-eth0 is correct since it works just fine in the 2.6.32 kernel. Mark On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Gene wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Mark Nejedlo wrote: > > I've just installed CentOS 6.

Re: [CentOS-virt] Would a hardware TRNG benefit VMs?

2013-07-16 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Digimer wrote: > On 15/07/13 07:04, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, Digimer wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I've been curious about using hardware true random number generators > > > in my VM clusters. This got me wondering about the VM's /dev/random >

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Balloon Driver on PVHVM CentOS6

2013-07-16 Thread David Vrabel
On 15/07/13 20:44, Rushikesh Jadhav wrote: > Hi List, > > It seems that the xen balloon functionality for guest is not enabled in > CentOS 3.4.50-8.el6 xen kernel by default via centos-release-xen.x86_64 > repo. I think this should have been present since this extra Xen repo > needs to support as

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen Balloon Driver on PVHVM CentOS6

2013-07-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/15/2013 08:44 PM, Rushikesh Jadhav wrote: > Hi List, > > It seems that the xen balloon functionality for guest is not enabled in > CentOS 3.4.50-8.el6 xen kernel by default via centos-release-xen.x86_64 > repo. I think this should have been present since this extra Xen repo > needs to suppor