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30.Dd October 26, 2014
31.Dt VIORND 4
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm viornd
35.Nd VirtIO entropy source
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Cd "viornd* at virtio?"
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39When the system has entropy demand,
40the
41.Nm
42driver, used with a compatible hypervisor such as QEMU, KVM, or Google
43Compute Engine, requests entropy using the VirtIO random number interface
44and feeds it into the system entropy pool.
45.Sh SEE ALSO
46.Xr rnd 4 ,
47.Xr virtio 4
48.Sh HISTORY
49The
50.Nm
51driver appeared in
52.Ox 5.5 .
53.Sh AUTHORS
54.An -nosplit
55The
56.Nm
57driver was written by
58.An Stephan Fritsch Aq Mt sf@fritsch.de
59and reworked to request entropy upon demand by
60.An Thor Lancelot Simon Aq Mt tls@NetBSD.org .
61.Sh CAVEATS
62VirtIO appears to support at least 8 pending entropy requests, but
63.Nm
64currently supports only one pending request at a time.
65