Does the Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM Hypervisor support the VirtIO Random Number Generator?
Issue
- Does the Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM Hypervisor support the VirtIO Random Number Generator?
- I am having problems with low availablity of entropy in a virtual machine, is it possible to use the VirtIO Random Number Generator (virtio-rng) feature for my virtual machine?
/dev/randomstarves inside VM
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 and later minor and major versions
- KVM virtualization (including RHEV and OpenStack)
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