I need less than 10 bits at rate of 10 milliseconds. With a random number I will select the next VCPU to schedule.

Michele

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:51 AM, James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hi!
> I am interested in writing a scheduler for Xen for academic purposes.
I need
> to generate random numbers.
> Is it possible to generate random numbers in xen hypervisor
developement?If
> this is possible, how can I do it?
>

How many bits do you random numbers need to be?

At what rate do you need them? (10/second?, 1000000/second?)

Would pseudo-random numbers do? If so, what repeat interval is
sufficient?

James