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? TIA - George
