Re: 'guix system vm' questions

[myglc2]

David Craven <address@hidden> writes:

> 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 <address@hidden> 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

This sounds great. I see you submitted patches. Am I correct in thinking
that the next step is to add an lsh-option option that uses rmg-tools
instead of lsh-make-seed to set the yarrow seed?

TIA - George