David Craven <[email protected]> writes: [...] >> >> From: myglc2 <[email protected]> >> >> David Craven <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> So I packaged rng-tools and created a shepherd service, but I realized >>> that the service needs to be started before the activation part of the >>> lsh service. What's the best way to do this? >>> >>> https://git.lysator.liu.se/lsh/lsh/blob/master/src/lsh-make-seed.c#L1075 >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 8:23 PM, David Craven <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> HW_RANDOM_VIRTIO is enabled in the default kernel. >>>> >>>> Starting the vm like this enables the hwrng: >>>> /gnu/store/3rqbwx34kfa789jbywfbxl90nids08cf-run-vm.sh -device >>>> virtio-rng-pci >>>> and it works as can be verified by >>>> cat /dev/hwrng >>>> >>>> The only missing components from what I can tell is packaging rng-tools >>>> and adding a service to add /dev/hwrng to the entropy pool on boot. >>>> >>>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/kernel/rng-tools/rng-tools.git/ >>>> >>>>> We should look into QEMU's VirtIO RNG, which could help here: >>>>> http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Features-Done/VirtIORNG >> >> This sounds great. I see you submitted patches. Am I correct in thinking >> that the next step is to add an lsh-option option that uses rmg-tools >> instead of lsh-make-seed to set the yarrow seed? >> > @myglc2 the simplest workaround to this issue is to add -device > virtio-rng-pci to your qemu flags ...
Thanks, that works but ... > ... and patch lsh to use /dev/hwrng in the /bin/lsh-make-seed file I > linked to in a previous reply. ... I don't follow this. Are you referring to the posts above? I have your "b58cbf9 * services: Add rngd-service." patch. Is the idea to add entropy so we don't need to bang on the keyboard? Or is an additional patch required/in the pipeline/a self help item? Thanks - George
