vtioentropy - Virtio entropy driver
The vtioentropy plugin for the Cryptographic Framework uses the Virtio Entropy Device to provide entropy to the kernel random pools.
The vtioentropy provider is not enabled by default and must be enabled using the cryptoadm command if the Virtio Entropy Device is provided by the host.
Use the cryptoadm command to enable or disable the vtioentropy provider.
To enable the vtioentropy entropy provider plugin:
# cryptoadm enable provider=vtioentropy random
To disable the use of vtioentropy plugin for entropy:
# cryptoadm disable provider=vtioentropy random
Check the status of the vtioentropy provider:
$ cryptoadm list -p provider=vtioentropy
# cryptoadm list -p provider=vtioentropy vtioentropy: random is enabled.
Driver configuration file.
x86 kernel module.
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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attributes(7), cryptoadm(8), vtio(4D)
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https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.1/virtio-v1.1.html