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Subject[PATCH 1/2] rngd: add udev rule to source from hwrng if virtio-rng present
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On KVM guests where the virtio-rng device is available, and set as the
current rng, this udev rule will start rngd which will feed in the
host-provided entropy to /dev/random.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
---
90-virtio-rng.rules | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
create mode 100644 90-virtio-rng.rules

diff --git a/90-virtio-rng.rules b/90-virtio-rng.rules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..07f2f9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/90-virtio-rng.rules
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+KERNEL=="hw_random", ATTR{rng_current}=="virtio*", RUN+="/sbin/rngd -r /dev/hwrng"
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1.9.3



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