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The TPM subsystem does not have a full front-end/back-end separation.
The sole available backend, tpm_passthrough, depends on the data
structures of the sole available frontend, tpm_tis.
However, we can at least try to split the user interface (tpm.c) from the
implementation (hw/tpm). The patches makes tpm.c not include tpm_int.h,
which is shared between tpm_tis.c and tpm_passthrough.c; instead it
moves more stuff to tpm_backend.h.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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This patch is based of off version 9 of Stefan Berger's patch series
"QEMU Trusted Platform Module (TPM) integration"
and adds a new backend driver for it.
This patch adds a passthrough backend driver for passing commands sent to the
emulated TPM device directly to a TPM device opened on the host machine.
Thus it is possible to use a hardware TPM device in a system running on QEMU,
providing the ability to access a TPM in a special state (e.g. after a Trusted
Boot).
This functionality is being used in the acTvSM Trusted Virtualization Platform
which is available on [1].
Usage example:
qemu-system-x86_64 -tpmdev passthrough,id=tpm0,path=/dev/tpm0 \
-device tpm-tis,tpmdev=tpm0 \
-cdrom test.iso -boot d
Some notes about the host TPM:
The TPM needs to be enabled and activated. If that's not the case one
has to go through the BIOS/UEFI and enable and activate that TPM for TPM
commands to work as expected.
It may be necessary to boot the kernel using tpm_tis.force=1 in the boot
command line or 'modprobe tpm_tis force=1' in case of using it as a module.
Regards,
Andreas Niederl, Stefan Berger
[1] http://trustedjava.sourceforge.net/
Signed-off-by: Andreas Niederl <andreas.niederl@iaik.tugraz.at>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Corey Bryant <coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Message-id: 1361987275-26289-6-git-send-email-stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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