[Xen-users] Major /dev/urandom (Security) issue?

[Ken Bass <kbass@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm new to Xen. I'm using the Xen that comes with Centos 5.1 (which is 
3.1). When I read from /dev/urandom, the values NEVER change. My domU is 
a Centos 5.1 instance. Below I run the simple command twice and get the 
same numbers. If I run another domU I get the SAME numbers!
-bash-3.1# od -tx4 -N 16 /dev/urandom
0000000 d920a168 b904ed93 1dc8962e d1a8c0b1

-bash-3.1# od -tx4 -N 16 /dev/urandom
0000000 d920a168 b904ed93 1dc8962e d1a8c0b1

I need to figure out:
1) How to fix this
2) Isnt this a major security flaw since the random seeds are static/known?

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