Libtpms-based TPM emulator with socket, character device, and Linux CUSE interface.
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SWTPM - Software TPM Emulator
      David Safford safford@us.ibm.com
      Stefan Berger stefanb@us.ibm.com

The SWTPM package provides TPM emulators with different front-end interfaces
to libtpms. TPM emulators provide socket interfaces (TCP/IP) and the Linux
CUSE interface for the creation of multiple native /dev/vtpm* devices.
Those can be the targets of multiple QEMU cuse-tpm instances.

The SWTPM package also provides several tools for using the CUSE TPM,
creating certificates for a TPM, and simulating the manufacturing of
a TPM by creating a TPM's EK and platform certificates etc. Please read 
the READMEs in the individual tool's directory under src/.


TPM emulators:
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The primary goal of the CUSE TPM is to support running multiple QEMU guests,
each having its own TPM emulator, without modifying QEMU, the kernel, or
libtpms. The approach is to use the QEMU cuse-tpm driver, pointing it to
/dev/vtpm? which is established as a CUSE frontend to libtpms.

The CUSE frontend supports ioctls on the /dev/vtpm? device file, for
handling hardware specific features, such as hardware reset, hardware
shutdown, setting locality, and getting the tpmEstablished bit and 
others. There is a getcapability ioctl to query which of these features
are available on a given vtpm. 

This has been tested on Fedora 20, as it has everything needed
(cuse, QEMU with TPM passthrough driver, libtpms...) enabled by default.
It is also known to work on RHEL-6.

Building:
	Please read INSTALL for how to build and install the package

Notes: 	If you are running selinux in enforcing mode (the Fedora 20 default),
	then you will get many (6?) rounds of errors, and everytime you have to
	use the selinux troubleshooter to add policies to allow the vtpm
	server to run. You only have to do this for the first VM.

	(If you are running ima-appraisal, you will need to sign the
        installed executables and libraries (/usr/bin/swtpm and
	/usr/bin/swtpm_cuse and /usr/lib/libswtpm_libtpms.so)

In the Guest:
	If you are running a fedora20 guest, then you can start out with:
		yum install tpm-tools
		systemctl start tcsd.service
		tpm_createek
		tpm_takeown -u -y -z
		tpm_getpubek -u -z

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Low level details on the executables:

	On Fedora 20, CUSE is a module, so you may need to:
		modprobe cuse
	For each desired vtpm, as root you simply:
		export TPM_PATH=<directory to keep vtpm state files>
		./swtpm_cuse -M <major> -m <minor> -n <device name>
	The process runs as a background daemon.

Initialize a two vTPMs' initial state with an EK each:

	# mkdir /tmp/myvtpm0
	# chown -R tss:root  /tmp/myvtpm0
	# swtpm_setup --tpm-state /tmp/myvtpm0  --createek

	# mkdir /tmp/myvtpm1
	# chown -R tss:root  /tmp/myvtpm1
	# swtpm_setup --tpm-state /tmp/myvtpm0  --createek

Start the vTPM to use it with QEMU:

	# export TPM_PATH=/tmp/myvtpm0
	# swtpm_cuse -n vtpm0

	# export TPM_PATH=/tmp/myvtpm1
	# swtpm_cuse -n vtpm1

Running QEMU with the cuse-tpm:

There are two needed options for the passthrough -tpmdev and -device
as shown in these examples. Note that the "path" parameter points to the
native (/dev/vtpm0...) path, while the id and tpmdev are the guest's view.

[Note: for the following to work, QEMU needs to be patched with
       yet to be published patches]

    $ qemu-system-x86_64 -display sdl -enable-kvm -cdrom cdrom.iso \
    -m 1024 -boot d -bios bios.bin -boot menu=on -tpmdev \
    cuse-tpm,id=tpm0,path=/dev/vtpm0 \
    -device tpm-tis,tpmdev=tpm0 test.img

    $ qemu-system-x86_64 -display sdl -enable-kvm -cdrom cdrom.iso \
    -m 1024 -boot d -bios bios.bin -boot menu=on -tpmdev \
    cuse-tpm,id=tpm1,path=/dev/vtpm1 \
    -device tpm-tis,tpmdev=tpm1 test2.img