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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>,
	Otavio Salvador <otavio.salvador@ossystems.com.br>
Cc: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qemu.inc: Drop rng-tools
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:14:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1510838076.3952.166.camel@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJTo0LZX253PH2xBQOANZ5rJ35wvDGKO7We2s-XBJjZy594GPA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 13:11 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 15 November 2017 at 19:59, Otavio Salvador <otavio.salvador@ossyst
> ems.com.br> wrote:
> > > Are you enabling the virtio-rng driver so qemu can bridge the
> > host entropy
> > > into the guest?
> > 
> > I am not. Do you have an example of command line for it?
>  https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/VirtIORNG talks about qemu's support
> and what to turn on there (the default qemu machines enable that).
> 
> http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/char/hw_
> random/Kconfig documents HW_RANDOM_VIRTIO and says at the top that
> the devices feed into the kernel pool.

Just to add, for qemuarm:

machine/qemuarm.conf:QB_OPT_APPEND = "-show-cursor -usb -device usb-tablet -device virtio-rng-pci"

the key piece being virtio-rng-pci on the commandline.

Cheers,

Richard


  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-16 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-13 17:35 [PATCH] qemu.inc: Drop rng-tools Richard Purdie
2017-11-13 19:30 ` Otavio Salvador
2017-11-13 19:55   ` Burton, Ross
2017-11-14 17:16     ` Otavio Salvador
2017-11-15 12:26       ` Burton, Ross
2017-11-15 19:59         ` Otavio Salvador
2017-11-16 13:11           ` Burton, Ross
2017-11-16 13:14             ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2017-11-16 13:26               ` Otavio Salvador
2018-11-22 17:39                 ` Martin Jansa
2018-11-22 17:48                   ` Otavio Salvador
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-11-13 17:34 Richard Purdie

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