Openvaz: Creating credentials is very slow [FIXED]

Friday, July 24th, 2015

When creating new credentials on Openvaz (6, 7 and 8), it takes a very long time to store the credentials.

The problem here is that the credentials are stored encrypted, and Openvaz (probably) has to generate a PGP key. This requires lots of random entropy, which is generally not abundantly available on a virtual machine. The solution is to install haveged:

sudo apt-get install haveged

Haveged will securely seed the random pool which will make a lot of random entropy available, even if you have no keyboard, mouse and soundcard attached. Ideal for VPSes.