From 3ff7365ee82fb7664c8fa4619dc47435dea8e222 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carlos Goncalves Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 20:54:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Install rng-tools in Red Hat family distro images Make sure rngd, a hardware RNG entropy gatherer daemon, is installed on all DIB-built Red Hat family distro images. rngd comes installed by default in a typical base installation as it's proven to help speed things up. Nova attaches the virtio-rng-pci device to VMs. virtio-rng-pci is a device that provides feed random data. However, it is of little to no use if the virtual machine is not configured to make use of given device. That is where rngd can help by facilitating entropy to the pool from virtio-rng-pci. $ openstack image set --property hw_rng_model=virtio [...] $ openstack flavor set --property hw_rng:allowed=True [...] DIB-built minimal images do not come with rngd installed. This patch makes sure the daemon is installed. Its systemd service comes already enabled. Change-Id: I34a989dbfc57d4c98113ac25c81dfb500945ff0a --- diskimage_builder/elements/redhat-common/package-installs.yaml | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/diskimage_builder/elements/redhat-common/package-installs.yaml b/diskimage_builder/elements/redhat-common/package-installs.yaml index d07a6c61d..7db6deb0f 100644 --- a/diskimage_builder/elements/redhat-common/package-installs.yaml +++ b/diskimage_builder/elements/redhat-common/package-installs.yaml @@ -14,3 +14,4 @@ selinux-policy-targeted: libselinux-python: policycoreutils: policycoreutils-python: +rng-tools: