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From: "James Harper" <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au>
Subject: RE: generate random numbers
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:51:00 +1100
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>=20
> 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?
>=20

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