[CentOS-virt] TPM

Wed Aug 29 11:38:25 UTC 2018
Dag Nygren <dag at newtech.fi>

On onsdag 29 augusti 2018 kl. 10:00:39 EEST Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
> 2018-08-28 13:52 GMT+02:00 Dag Nygren <dag at newtech.fi>:
> 
> > We have a desperate need for TPM support and:
> >
> > 1. Tried the "standard" distro install. linvirt supports
> >   TPM passthrough but kvm-qemu barfs:
> >   "unsupported configuration: The QEMU executable /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm
> > does not support TPM backend type passthrough"
> >
> > 2. The activated the qemu-ev repo and updated qemu-kvm to version 2.10.0,
> > which for sure
> >    should support at least passthrough. No luck - Same error message.
> >    Downloaded the source for th rpm and found a line: "--disable-tpm"
> >    in build_configure.sh. Guess that the maintainers has some reason
> >    to turn tpm off. Can somone confirm this?
> >
> 
> Not sure about reasons for turning off, but request to enable it has been
> closed wontfix: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1327947

Thanks for the comments and reactions so far!

Well. Changed -disable-tpm to enable-tpm in the rpmbuild and
built myself a version with TPM passthrough enabled. Just to find
out that it only supports tpm_tis in 2.10.0 and our device
only seem to speak tpm_cdr :-(. Bugger.. But we really do need multiple
VM:s accessing the hardware TPM anyway and this would only give us
one VM ...

Also downloaded qemu 2.12.0 and tried to very optimistically just
throw it in the rpmbuild. And got a heap of patch fails already
at the first patch. Expected of course... So no such luck.

Now looking further it also seems like even 2.12.0 will not solve
our problem as it only gives multiple VM access to the swtpm emulator.
We need access to the hardware TPM...

Can you make swtpm use the hardware ?

Any advice would/will be valuable!

Best
Dag