On 3/23/17 9:23 , Michele Codutti via smartos-discuss wrote:
> Hi all. Recently I noticed that the tomcat web server had log startup times 
> when it runs inside a KVM linux machine.
> It seems that the problem resides in the fact that the /dev/random produce 
> entropy very slowly.
> I have found two solutions of this problem:
> 1. Configure tomcat to use /dev/urandom
> 2. Use the virtio-rng paravirtual device (if it is implemented in the KVM 
> port in SmartOS). 
> <http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2015/03/09/red-hat-enterprise-linux-virtual-machines-access-to-random-numbers-made-easy/
>  
> <http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2015/03/09/red-hat-enterprise-linux-virtual-machines-access-to-random-numbers-made-easy/>>
> The first solution is quick and dirty.
> The second seems more robust but I need to configure a KVM machine with that 
> paravirtual device.
> I had not found any documentation about that topic in the (SmartOS) wiki. 
> Googling was not useful.
> Some one can give me at least some directions?

There's no support for the virtio-rng paravirtualized device today.

Robert



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