Re: random seed file and dom0, domU

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 03:46:00PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> (Please note that I am intentionally avoiding discussion of "should the
> NetBSD rnd(4) system be different than it is.)
> 
> With GENERIC one typically has:
>   menu=GENERIC:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot netbsd
> 
> I assume that the point is to squirt the entropy in as part of boot so
> the kernel has it before dealing with the filesystem.
> 
> I see there is also /etc/rc.d/random_seed, which does this when the
> system is up.
> 
> 1) Is there any way to early-load entropy-file for a dom0 under Xen?

no

> 
> 2) Is there any way to early-load entropy-file for a domU?

no

> 3) Is there lurking in my questions a work item for NetBSD/Xen, or is
> the siuation somehow worse on Xen compared to bare metal?

AFAIK nobody is working on this at this time.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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