On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 10:01:25AM -0700, Solomon Homicz wrote:
> I installed opensolaris on a virtual hard disk in Virtual Box, but I get this 
> message on boot up - WARNING: No randomness provider enabled for /dev/random. 
> Use cryptoadm(1) to enable a provider.
> What is this? and how do I deal with it? I am totally new to open source, and 
> am searching for alternatives to microsoft. Any help and info would be 
> appreciated.

It's harmless and it can be ignored but I agree that this message
could appear daunting to a new OpenSolaris user.

You can read more about it here:
   http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=38

As you can see, it's been fixed in a later release.
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