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virtio-rng backend should use getentropy() syscall when available
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.
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