Attach the Firecracker entropy device (virtio-rng) to give the guest high-quality randomness and expose /dev/hwrng, with optional rate limiting

domain: firecracker-microvm.github.io · 5 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps

  1. Attach the single entropy device via PUT /entropy before start; the request body may include a rate_limiter (bandwidth token bucket)
  2. curl --unix-socket /tmp/firecracker.socket -X PUT http://localhost/entropy -d '{"rate_limiter":{"bandwidth":{"size":1000,"one_time_burst":0,"refill_time":100}}}' caps randomness to 10KB/sec
  3. The guest Linux kernel's virtio-rng front-end driver exposes /dev/hwrng for user-space reads and feeds entropy into the kernel pool
  4. Ensure the guest kernel has CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIRTIO enabled (depends on CONFIG_HW_RANDOM and CONFIG_VIRTIO), otherwise the device is unusable
  5. Firecracker sources random bytes host-side from aws-lc-rs / AWS-LC

Known gotchas

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