We've recently prepared a filesystem image for the latest Debian
distribution, and hit a problem with it hanging on starting Apache2. We
traced this to a lack of entropy to feed /dev/random, causing the
Apache's startssl to block.
Chris Lightfoot has developed this patch to feed the guest's entropy
pool with data read from the host's /dev/random on boot:
http://mythic-beasts.com/uml/random-seed.patch
Paul
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