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Bug#736126: Please install haveged on physical machines



On Wed, 2018-05-23 at 22:35 +0200, Nicolas Braud-Santoni wrote:
> Control: severity -1 wishlist
> Control: retitle -1 Please install haveged on physical machines
> COntrol: tag -1 + moreinfo
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 05:37:32PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote:
> > On 20.01.2014 10:22, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> > > Jeffrey Walton:
> > > > It would probably be very beneficial to install an entropy gatherer by
> > > > default.
> > > 
> > > I am unconvinced that haveged is the answer here, but reassigning to the
> > > proper package.
> 
> Retitling and reducing severity.
> 
> 
> Do we have a reasonablish way of telling whether a system is “real”
> hardware or a virtual machine, and choose whether to install haveged or not
> accordingly?

systemd seems to have a reliable way of doing that (systemd-detect-virt 
command).

> Is it a thing we want to do?

I don't have an opinion either way.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program
than vice versa.

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