[Cialug] Get Random in VMware

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

On 2016-07-20 at 13:30:54 Todd Walton wrote:
> Anybody know of a better way of getting randomness in a VMware
> virtualized Red Hat / CentOS guest than /dev/random?

I've installed haveged on my VMs that require randomness. It seems to 
provide lots of entropy and didn't require any real configuration; 
setting it up on RHEL7 was literally just:
    # yum install haveged
    # systemctl enable haveged
    # systemctl start haveged

Please note that i have not done any statistical analysis of the 
randomness that comes out of haveged to determine how random it really 
is. From what i read about it, it seemed adequate for my needs though.

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