#36380 - service urandom-seed takes too long on boot

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Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 18:09:56 -0500
From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Stefan <stefan-guix@vodafonemail.de>
Subject: Re: bug#36380: service urandom-seed takes too long on boot
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On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 04:00:23PM +0100, Stefan wrote:
> Qemu is invoked with these arguments concerning random:
> 
> -cpu host,+smap,+rdseed,+erms,+smep,+fsgsbase,+3dnowprefetch,+rdtscp,+pdpe1gb,+rdrand,+osxsave,+xsave,+tsc-deadline,+movbe,+x2apic,+pdcm,+xtpr,+tm2,+est,+vmx,+ds_cpl,+dtes64,+pclmuldq,+pbe,+tm,+ht,+ss,+acpi,+ds,+vme -object rng-random,id=objrng0,filename=/dev/random -device virtio-rng-pci,rng=objrng0,id=rng0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1c

What does the argument "filename=/dev/random" do? Does it use the host's
/dev/random to provide entropy to the QEMU guest?

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#36380 service urandom-seed takes too long on boot