diff --git a/hw/riscv/virt.c b/hw/riscv/virt.c
index bc424dd2f5..f2ce5663a4 100644
--- a/hw/riscv/virt.c
+++ b/hw/riscv/virt.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
 #include "qemu/units.h"
 #include "qemu/error-report.h"
+#include "qemu/guest-random.h"
 #include "qapi/error.h"
 #include "hw/boards.h"
 #include "hw/loader.h"
@@ -998,6 +999,7 @@ static void create_fdt(RISCVVirtState *s, const MemMapEntry *memmap,
     MachineState *mc = MACHINE(s);
     uint32_t phandle = 1, irq_mmio_phandle = 1, msi_pcie_phandle = 1;
     uint32_t irq_pcie_phandle = 1, irq_virtio_phandle = 1;
+    uint8_t rng_seed[32];
 
     if (mc->dtb) {
         mc->fdt = load_device_tree(mc->dtb, &s->fdt_size);
@@ -1046,6 +1048,10 @@ update_bootargs:
     if (cmdline && *cmdline) {
         qemu_fdt_setprop_string(mc->fdt, "/chosen", "bootargs", cmdline);
     }
+
+    /* Pass seed to RNG */
+    qemu_guest_getrandom_nofail(rng_seed, sizeof(rng_seed));
+    qemu_fdt_setprop(mc->fdt, "/chosen", "rng-seed", rng_seed, sizeof(rng_seed));
 }
 
 static inline DeviceState *gpex_pcie_init(MemoryRegion *sys_mem,