vdev virtio-entropy
Provide a guest with a source of random numbers (entropy)
Synopsis:
vdev virtio-entropy options
Options:
- delayed num|forever
- Delay opening /dev/random until the guest's first request.
- intr intr
- Signal intr for device interrupts. Not required when the vdev appears as a PCI device.
- loc addr
- Set the base address of the device registers to addr. If this option isn't specified, the vdev appears as a PCI device.
For a list of options available to all vdevs, see Common vdev options
at the beginning of this
chapter.
Description:
ARM and x86. The virtio-entropy vdev provides a guest with access to a source for random numbers (entropy) at /dev/random.
For a Linux guest, you must enable the guest's virtio-rng Linux kernel module.
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