henry del wrote on 2013-05-16:
> Hi,
>
>   According to Joseph, Tboot is a specific implementation of an MLE
> (Measured Launched Environment). Tboot encapsulates most of the
> TXT-specific knowledge so that it can launch an OS or VMM that is only
> minimally aware of TXT.
>
>    As for bitvisor, it is a tiny hypervisor, which runs directly on the
> hardware(Type-I VMM).
>
>    The question is that if I want to launch bitvisor using Tboot, what 
> should I
> do? Do I need to take a look at and modify the source code of Tboot and then
> rebuild Tboot?

You should modify the code of bitvisor to make it aware of tboot. Please refer 
to xen/arch/x86/tboot.c.

>
>
>    It does not work just to add a menuentry including Tboot and bitvisor 
> image
> in the grub.cfg. But it works fine when I add a menuentry including Tboot 
> and
> Xen according to Tboot spec.

If you port tboot.c into bitvisor, then this way should also work for 
bitvisor.

Thanks
Jimmy

>
>
>    Thanks!
> Best regards,
>
> henry



Jimmy


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