This directory hosts (v)TPM related code.
Background:
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A TPM is a crypto chip that is found in many systems. Besides it offering
a secure key store, among other functionality, it is also used to implement
'trusted boot'. This is realized by code in the firmware measuring parts of the
firmware's code and data as well as system data, such as the boot block, and
logging these measurements and storing (extending) them in the TPM's platform
configuration register (PCR).
The benefits of having a TPM (or vTPM) in a system are:
- enablement of trusted boot; this allow us to eventually extend the chain of
trust from the hypervisor to the guests
- enablement of attestation so that one can verify what software is running on
a machine (OpenPTS, OpenAttestation)
- provides TPM functionality to VMs, which includes a standardized mechanism
to store keys and other blobs (Linux trusted keys, GNU TLS's TPM extensions)
QEMU/KVM + SLOF support:
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vTPM for QEMU/KVM pSeries virtual machines is support in QEMU 5.0.
To start a QEMU VM with an attached vTPM (swtpm), run the below shown commands.
The following will setup the vTPM so that its state will be stored in
/tmp/myvtpm1. A unique directory for each VM instance with attached vTPM
must be provided. Whenever QEMU is started, the swtpm has to be started
before it. The file 'boot_rom.bin' is SLOF with vTPM extensions built-in.
#> mkdir -p /tmp/mytpm1
#> swtpm socket --tpm2 --tpmstate dir=/tmp/mytpm1 \
--ctrl type=unixio,path=/tmp/mytpm1/swtpm-sock
In another terminal:
#> sudo qemu-system-ppc64 -display sdl \
-machine pseries,accel=kvm \
-m 1024 -bios boot_rom.bin -boot menu=on \
-nodefaults -device VGA -device pci-ohci -device usb-kbd \
-chardev socket,id=chrtpm,path=/tmp/mytpm1/swtpm-sock \
-tpmdev emulator,id=tpm0,chardev=chrtpm \
-device tpm-spapr,tpmdev=tpm0 \
-device spapr-vscsi,id=scsi0,reg=0x00002000 \
-device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0 \
-drive file=test.img,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0
Notes:
- The Linux kernel in the VM must have the tpm_ibmvtpm module available
or built-in. A recent kernel is needed that enables TPM 2.0 support
in this module.
- 'swtpm_ioctl --unix /tmp/mytpm1/swtpm-sock -s' can be used to gracefully
shut down the vTPM.
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