diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
index a3cf86698d8061936682970c5120089a5710e5f4..d2db53b41823ecd266a3bd0d5da0b335c222bef8 100644
--- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in
+++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
@@ -6244,10 +6244,10 @@ qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? /dev/null
This backend type expects a non-blocking character device as
- input. The only accepted paths are /dev/random and /dev/hwrng.
- The file name is specified as contents of the
+ input. The file name is specified as contents of the
backend
element. When no file name is specified
- the hypervisor default is used.
+ the hypervisor default is used. For qemu, the default is
+ /dev/random
egd
diff --git a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
index 66f41679a4eccf8a33cddd9605491c64d220d3be..f77bbcf5982886897155524354cede191fd8cd36 100644
--- a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
+++ b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
@@ -4693,8 +4693,7 @@
random
- /dev/random
- /dev/hwrng
+
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
index db567f5c0790ab1be35a5b3b12bf8f00eb617767..2c6244aaf39625a0aa63bee0db10fe9cf6784436 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
@@ -11497,14 +11497,6 @@ virDomainRNGDefParseXML(xmlNodePtr node,
switch ((virDomainRNGBackend) def->backend) {
case VIR_DOMAIN_RNG_BACKEND_RANDOM:
def->source.file = virXPathString("string(./backend)", ctxt);
- if (def->source.file &&
- STRNEQ(def->source.file, "/dev/random") &&
- STRNEQ(def->source.file, "/dev/hwrng")) {
- virReportError(VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR,
- _("file '%s' is not a supported random source"),
- def->source.file);
- goto error;
- }
break;
case VIR_DOMAIN_RNG_BACKEND_EGD:
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-rng-random.args b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-rng-random.args
index ba97c1e8ee5a80eb765ac41f66d7f529dc811083..5a4d47be975c3f463bd5676b63ce3748dc56ca60 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-rng-random.args
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-rng-random.args
@@ -18,6 +18,6 @@ QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none \
-boot c \
-usb \
-device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 \
--object rng-random,id=objrng0,filename=/dev/hwrng \
+-object rng-random,id=objrng0,filename=/dev/urandom \
-device virtio-rng-pci,rng=objrng0,id=rng0,max-bytes=123,period=1234,bus=pci.0,\
addr=0x4
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-rng-random.xml b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-rng-random.xml
index 71bd21a65c66c8d9dfacddce392a3b418480d736..a6e91fff3e586d98f37f72d5196885b6d3acaa55 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-rng-random.xml
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-virtio-rng-random.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
- /dev/hwrng
+ /dev/urandom
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-virtio-rng-random.xml b/tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-virtio-rng-random.xml
index e8a047866b544d40bcaa5d0ef9bb3e4d62b8bf4d..0bdefdef4436a370bf1fe40be8a9e3281fec6262 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-virtio-rng-random.xml
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-virtio-rng-random.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
- /dev/hwrng
+ /dev/urandom