On Mon, 2019-10-07 at 13:26 +0000, procmem@riseup.net wrote:
On 10/7/19 7:31 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
On Sat, 2019-10-05 at 14:32 +0000, procmem@riseup.net wrote:
Hi. I am very interested in the security properties a totally open TPM can give our users - its use as a universal smartcard to protect all types of keys. When adding the virtual 1.2 or 2.0 TPM I get the vague error below. OS is Debian stable with standard packages.
Error starting domain: Unable to find 'swtpm' binary in $PATH: No such file or directory
I wouldn't call this error message vague at all: it tells you exactly what the problem is, namely that libvirt needs the 'swtpm' command for your configuration but the latter is not available :)
Unfortunately it looks like swtpm it's not packaged for Debian, so I'm afraid the solution is not just a simple apt-get away :(
Thanks for letting me know. I assumed everything in libvirt was self contained and so I didn't expect it to need an extraneous package. Hopefully it'll land by Debian Bullseye.
libvirt calls out to several external tools, the most high-profile example being of course QEMU ;) -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization