From: David Craven <david@craven.ch>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 'guix system vm' questions
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 15:10:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL1_imn4cdtPwB6W62QckgCtSNyripD-01yALugDL6Tw-R4edA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL1_immpv7rYuq+HD=yh8Nvn9WODVSizmkshxyMHa4RyP1UkYA@mail.gmail.com>
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 <david@craven.ch> 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
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-29 18:23 'guix system vm' questions David Craven
2016-06-30 13:10 ` David Craven [this message]
2016-07-03 13:53 ` myglc2
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2016-07-07 16:26 David Craven
2016-07-03 16:09 David Craven
2016-07-06 16:17 ` myglc2
2016-06-29 6:57 myglc2
2016-06-29 14:10 ` Thompson, David
2016-06-29 15:48 ` Leo Famulari
2016-07-01 20:15 ` myglc2
2016-07-02 13:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-03 13:47 ` myglc2
2016-07-11 19:32 ` Leo Famulari
2016-06-30 21:20 ` myglc2
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