Yes, using getrandom() in qemu by default on systems that support it will be an improvement, and is the right approach.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1811758 Title: virtio-rng backend should use getentropy() syscall when available Status in QEMU: New Bug description: According to https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/VirtIORNG the default backend for `virtio-rng-pci` is `/dev/random`. Alternately, the user can point it to a different backend file, like `/dev/urandom`. However, both of these files have suboptimal behavior in one way or another, as documented in `random(7)`. Instead, the default behavior should be to pull the requested octets from the `getrandom()` system call, if available, called with no flags set. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1811758/+subscriptions
