On Jan 13, Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> wrote: > I recently discovered that Vmware appears to have no virtual RNG > available to the guest at all. AFAIK you are right. > A buster vmware guest will boot but will be unable to start sshd because > of lack of entropy for typically five minutes or so. > A lot of stuff breaks in that configuration. > virtio-rng doesn't help at all. > > You can claim that Vmware is broken all you want, but a lot of people us > it, and we really should produce an operating system that you can ssh > into when you boot a bunch of instances in a virtual environment. Agreed. I think that d-i should install rngd (or haveged? And why?) if it detects a virtualized environment without virtio-rng. -- ciao, Marco
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