On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 08:16:03AM -0400, Quan Xu wrote: > This patch series are only the SeaBios part to enable stubdom vTPM for HVM > virtual machine. It will work with Qemu patch series and Xen patch series. > > ======================== > *INTRODUCTION* > ======================== > The goal of virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) is to provide a TPM > functionality > to virtual machines (Fedora, Ubuntu, Redhat, Windows .etc). This allows > programs > to interact with a TPM in a virtual machine the same way they interact with a > TPM > on the physical system. Each virtual machine gets its own unique, emulated, > software > TPM. Each major component of vTPM is implemented as a stubdom, providing > secure > separation guaranteed by the hypervisor. > > The vTPM stubdom is a Xen mini-OS domain that emulates a TPM for the virtual > machine > to use. It is a small wrapper around the Berlios TPM emulator. TPM commands > are passed > from mini-os TPM backend driver.
Thanks. Does this seabios patch require additional seabios patches before it is useful? Does it depend on upstream patches in Xen/QEMU that are not yet committed? -Kevin
