(Please note that I am intentionally avoiding discussion of "should the NetBSD rnd(4) system be different than it is.) With GENERIC one typically has: menu=GENERIC:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot netbsd I assume that the point is to squirt the entropy in as part of boot so the kernel has it before dealing with the filesystem. I see there is also /etc/rc.d/random_seed, which does this when the system is up. 1) Is there any way to early-load entropy-file for a dom0 under Xen? Or is the answer "just use the rc.d method, because while theoretically a dom0 could have root on NFS, in practice no one does this". 2) Is there any way to early-load entropy-file for a domU? Or is it again just use the filesystem? 3) Is there lurking in my questions a work item for NetBSD/Xen, or is the siuation somehow worse on Xen compared to bare metal?
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