On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 12:36:25PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: >Hi folks > >We have the famous random stall problem in our cloud images as well. >cloud-init and our other provisioning tools will generate ssh keys and >need randomness for that, so block for several minutes on initial boot.[1] > >For now we have two recipes against this: >- amd64 trusts RDRAND, but the host needs to provide proper cpu flags for > this to work and >- we support virtio-rng, which needs to be configured on the host. > >But we have no solution that works without proper setup of the host >system. > >Can we do more about it?
d-i is using haveged now, and that's working well AFAICS. >Does anyone know what RHEL8 (which should have this problem as well) >does to "fix" this problem? Pass, but I know we have some RH folks around. Just prodded Jon... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer
