Hi Mirko,
We don't test for that kind of environment here, so it's definitely possible to
run into things like that.
We officially support VMWare environments, but other virtualization
technologies have been known to work too.
That's good to know, anyway.
Thank you for reporting it.
--
Louis Munro
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> On Jun 29, 2017, at 11:20, Mirko Corosu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Luois,
>
> I installed PF on a CentOS7 VM, running on top of oVirt 3.6 vitualization
> system (qemu-kvm/libvirt). All physical nodes OS's are CentOS7.
>
> As far as I can understand, in a VM the random generation is "slow", so if
> you try to read from /dev/random you'll get stuck for minutes unless you
> configure a paravirtualize random device (not my case).
>
> The unblocked random generator (/dev/urandom) is an option, even though it
> could be less secure.
>
> Regards
>
> Mirko
>
> On 29/06/2017 15:46, Louis Munro wrote:
>> Hello Mirko,
>> Sorry I could not help more. I was out most of the day yesterday.
>> That's an interesting issue.
>> Can you tell us more about the environment you are running this on?
>> Best regards,
>> --
>> Louis Munro
>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> :: www.inverse.ca
>> <http://www.inverse.ca>
>> +1.514.447.4918 x125 :: +1 (866) 353-6153 x125
>> Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu <http://www.sogo.nu>) and
>> PacketFence (www.packetfence.org <http://www.packetfence.org>)
>>> On Jun 29, 2017, at 03:15, Mirko Corosu via PacketFence-users
>>> <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> OK, I finally solve my problem.
>>> The httpd.graphite service could not generate the secret in the sub
>>> "generate_secret" of lib/pf/services/manager/httpd_graphite.pm module from
>>> /dev/random on my VM (oVirt 3.6).
>>>
>>> As a workaround, I made /dev/random a link to /dev/urandom, but I have to
>>> better understand the cause.
>
> --
>
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