virtio_random(4)

virtio_random4

Virtio entropy driver

Usage

device virtio_random

In loader.conf(5): virtio_random_load="YES"

Overview

The virtio_random device driver provides support for VirtIO entropy devices.

The entropy device supplies high-quality randomness from the hypervisor to the guest.

Releases

29 releases since FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE; the text changed 16 times.

  1. 10.1
  2. 10.2
  3. 10.3
  4. 10.4
  5. 11.0
  6. 11.1
  7. 11.2
  8. 11.3
  9. 11.4
  10. 12.0
  11. 12.1
  12. 12.2
  13. 12.3
  14. 12.4
  15. 13.0–13.2
  16. 13.3–15.1
  17. 16.0

Authors

Bryan Venteicher ⟨[email protected]⟩

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.