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From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@canonical.com>
Cc: Sultan Alsawaf <sultanxda@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Subject: Re: Linux messages full of `random: get_random_u32 called from`
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:00:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180427000013.GH5965@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180426204748.GA7540@gmail.com>
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:47:49PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
>
> We have observed a similiar problem with libvirt. As soon as entropy is
> provided the boot finishes otherwise it hangs for a long time.
> This is not happening with v4.17-rc1 afaict.
For libvirt there is at least an easy workaround. Make surue the
guest kernel has CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIRTIO enabled, and then make sure
qemu is started with the options:
-object rng-random,filename=/dev/urandom,id=rng0 \
-device virtio-rng-pci,rng=rng0
Cheers,
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-27 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-26 4:11 Sultan Alsawaf
2018-04-26 5:00 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-04-26 5:05 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2018-04-26 7:32 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-04-26 15:17 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2018-04-26 19:25 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-04-26 20:22 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2018-04-26 20:47 ` Christian Brauner
2018-04-27 0:00 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2018-04-27 15:38 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-04-27 19:14 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-04-26 23:56 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-04-27 5:20 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2018-04-27 20:10 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-04-27 22:59 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2018-04-29 14:32 ` Pavel Machek
2018-04-29 17:05 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2018-04-29 18:41 ` Pavel Machek
2018-04-29 20:20 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2018-04-29 21:18 ` Pavel Machek
2018-04-29 21:34 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2018-04-29 22:05 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-04-29 22:26 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2018-04-29 22:43 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2018-04-29 22:49 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2018-04-30 0:11 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-04-30 4:34 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2018-04-30 16:11 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-01 19:53 ` Pavel Machek
2018-04-29 22:43 ` Pavel Machek
2018-04-30 0:32 ` Laura Abbott
2018-04-30 21:12 ` Jeremy Cline
2018-05-01 11:52 ` Justin Forbes
2018-05-01 12:55 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-01 22:35 ` Justin Forbes
2018-05-02 0:02 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-02 12:09 ` Justin Forbes
2018-05-02 16:26 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-02 17:49 ` Laura Abbott
2018-05-02 22:25 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-03 6:19 ` Pavel Machek
2018-05-03 12:23 ` Justin Forbes
2018-05-02 0:43 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2018-05-02 0:56 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-02 1:11 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2018-04-29 18:30 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2018-04-29 20:08 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-18 1:27 ` Trent Piepho
2018-05-18 2:32 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-18 22:56 ` Trent Piepho
2018-05-18 23:22 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-21 18:39 ` Trent Piepho
2018-04-29 14:29 ` Pavel Machek
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-04-24 11:48 Paul Menzel
2018-04-24 13:56 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-04-24 14:30 ` Paul Menzel
2018-04-24 15:49 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-04-24 15:56 ` Paul Menzel
2018-04-25 7:41 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-04-26 3:48 ` Paul Menzel
2018-04-29 14:22 ` Pavel Machek
2018-04-29 23:02 ` Dave Jones
2018-04-29 23:07 ` Dave Jones
2018-04-30 0:21 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-04-26 5:51 ` Pavel Machek
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