VIRTIO_RANDOM(4)

💖 VIRTIO_RANDOM(4) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel Interfaces Manual page for virtio_random — the VirtIO Entropy driver ✨ it's a real one, i promise

🌸 NAME 🌸

virtio_random — the VirtIO Entropy driver 🎲✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

so like, if you wanna compile this driver into the kernel, you gotta drop these lines into your kernel configuration file:

device virtio_random

or — plot twist — if you'd rather load the driver as a module at boot time, then you put this line in loader.conf(5) instead:

virtio_random_load="YES"

pick your fighter, both are valid 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so the virtio_random device driver is literally here to provide support for VirtIO entropy devices. that's the whole job. iconic behavior honestly.

and the entropy device? she supplies high-quality randomness from the hypervisor straight to the guest 🫶 like a little gift, but make it cryptographic.

no cap, randomness from the hypervisor → guest. that's the pipeline. that's the vibe. 🔥

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• random(4)
• virtio(4)

iykyk, go read those next bestie 📚

💜 HISTORY 💜

the virtio_random driver was written by Bryan Venteicher <bryanv@FreeBSD.org> — ty king for the entropy 🙏✨

and that's the whole page fr fr! this lil cutie came out of Debian, dated December 28, 2013 💖 mwah, go forth and get your randomness 🌈🎀🦋