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Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: add backend for mssim
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Stefan Berger |
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Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: add backend for mssim |
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Mon, 19 Dec 2022 09:01:41 -0500 |
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On 12/19/22 08:02, James Bottomley wrote:
On Mon, 2022-12-19 at 06:49 -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
On 12/16/22 08:53, James Bottomley wrote:
I could do a blog post, but I really don't think you want this in
official documentation because that creates support expectations.
We get support expectations if we don't mention it as not being
supported. So, since this driver is not supported the documentation
for QEMU should state something along the lines of 'this driver is
for experimental or testing purposes and is otherwise unsupported.'
That's fair to the user and maintainer.
Open source project don't provide support. I already added a
Maintainer entry for it, so I'll maintain it.
Support for me means reacting to user questions and addressing issues. Good
that you maintain this now.
Nevertheless, if the documentation (or as a matter of fact the code)
was to claim that VM / TPM state migration scenarios, such as VM
snapshotting, are working then users should be able to ask someone
'how' this can be done with the mssim protocol **today**. Since I
cannot answer that question you may need to find a way for how to
address this concern.
I already proposed all of this ... you were the one wanting to document
migration. The current wording is:
With documenting I wanted to see how users need to provide command lines for
the mssim TPM.
The mssim backend supports snapshotting and migration, but the state
of the Microsoft Simulator server must be preserved (or the server
kept running) outside of QEMU for restore to be successful.
VM snapshotting is basically VM suspend / resume on steroids requiring
permanent and volatile state to be saved and restoreable from possible very
different points in time with possibly different seeds, NVRAM locations etc.
How the mssim protocol does this is non-obvious to me and how one coordinates
the restoring and saving of the TPM's state without direct coordination by QEMU
is also non-obvious.
Stefan
James
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: add backend for mssim, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: add backend for mssim, James Bottomley, 2022/12/15
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: add backend for mssim, Stefan Berger, 2022/12/15
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: add backend for mssim, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2022/12/16
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: add backend for mssim, Stefan Berger, 2022/12/16
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: add backend for mssim, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2022/12/16
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: add backend for mssim, Stefan Berger, 2022/12/16
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: add backend for mssim, James Bottomley, 2022/12/16
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: add backend for mssim, Stefan Berger, 2022/12/16
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: add backend for mssim, Stefan Berger, 2022/12/19
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: add backend for mssim, James Bottomley, 2022/12/19
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: add backend for mssim,
Stefan Berger <=
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: add backend for mssim, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2022/12/16
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: add backend for mssim, Stefan Berger, 2022/12/16
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: add backend for mssim, James Bottomley, 2022/12/16
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: add backend for mssim, Stefan Berger, 2022/12/16
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: add backend for mssim, James Bottomley, 2022/12/16
- Re: [PATCH 2/2] tpm: add backend for mssim, Stefan Berger, 2022/12/16