[OE-core] [PATCH] qemu.inc: Drop rng-tools

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Nov 16 13:14:36 UTC 2017


On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 13:11 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 15 November 2017 at 19:59, Otavio Salvador <otavio.salvador at 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



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