Install TPM ( Trusted Platform Module )

This is a guide to install a Trusted Platform Module emulator in Linux. It is required to install Windows 11 virtual machines.

Ubuntu

Add the swtpm repository to your package sources

echo "deb [trusted=yes] http://ppa.launchpad.net/stefanberger/swtpm-focal/ubuntu focal main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

Update and install

If you get the following message “the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY xxxxxxxxxxx”

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys xxxxxxxxxxx

sudo apt update
sudo apt install swtpm-tools

Software TPM is expected to ship with Ubuntu 22.04.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install swtpm-tools

Please report. Debian information about this topic.

Packages for RPM based distributions are likely to appear and the installation should be possible with dnf. Please report.

Virtual machine may fail to launch. It should generate a log file at /var/log/swtpm/libvirt/qemu/

Need read/write rights on statedir /var/lib/swtpm-localca for user tss

Fix it with granting the rights it requests:

sudo chgrp tss /var/lib/swtpm-localca
sudo chmod g+w /var/lib/swtpm-localca