[libvirt-users] Emulated TPM doesn't work on Debian Buster

[Martin Kletzander]

On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 02:32:19PM +0000, procmem at 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
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 75, in
>cb_wrapper
>    callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
>  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 111, in tmpcb
>    callback(*args, **kwargs)
>  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/libvirtobject.py", line 66,
>in newfn
>    ret = fn(self, *args, **kwargs)
>  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1400, in
>startup
>    self._backend.create()
>  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 1080, in create
>    if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
>libvirt.libvirtError: Unable to find 'swtpm' binary in $PATH: No such
>file or directory
>

What is vague about this?  "Unable to find 'swtpm' binary in $PATH:" ???

Have you tried:

  apt install -y swtpm

perhaps?

>
>
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