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Title:
  qemu-system-x86_64: -device tpm-tis,tpmdev=tpm-tpm0,id=tpm0: Property
  'tpm-tis.tpmdev' can't find value 'tpm-tpm0'

Status in qemu package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in qemu source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed
Status in qemu source package in Groovy:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * TPM isn't always easy, but at least some rough edges can be improved.
     In this case some qemu commandlines will lead to odd error reporting
     which is a) a false-positive and b) blocking the use case.

   * This was fixed upstream and hereby the fix is backported

  [Test Case]

  Easiest - using passthrough:
  You need a system that has a TPM:

  $ sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -S -display none -monitor stdio
  -tpmdev passthrough,id=tpm0,path=/dev/tpm0 -device tpm-tis,tpmdev=tpm0

  If you enter the qemu monitor you are good, if qemu doesn't start
  complaining about its command line arguments then the error is still
  present.

  One can (if you want to go the extra mile) also set up a swtpm based
  emulator and try that. But swtpm isn't in the archive yet and trousers
  (a dependency) has issues on install. Commands would then be like:

  $ swtpm socket --tpmstate dir=/tmp/mytpm1 --ctrl type=unixio,path=/tmp/mytpm1/swtpm-sock --log level=20
  $ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -S -display none -monitor stdio -chardev socket,id=chrtpm,path=/tmp/mytpm1/swtpm-sock -tpmdev emulator,id=tpm0,chardev=chrtpm -device tpm-tis,tpmdev=tpm0


  
  [Where problems could occur]

   * The changes are local only to the tpm code in qemu. So we can assume
     that other areas will unlikely be affected, but at the same time errors
     would occur in exactly that place. So for the time after release our 
     bug triage can be extra careful if anyone mentioned qemu+tpm to spot 
     regressions.

  [Other Info]
   
   * n/a

  ----

  
  Hello. The TPM device in virt-manager never really worked in Ubuntu (I tried upgrades from 16.04 to 20.04 and each of them exhibited a different kind of issues).
  The Ubuntu 20.04 versions of libvirt/qemu are throwing the following error:

  qemu-system-x86_64: -device tpm-tis,tpmdev=tpm-tpm0,id=tpm0: Property
  'tpm-tis.tpmdev' can't find value 'tpm-tpm0'

  Our employer changed a security policy, requiring encrypted drives and
  that endangers usage of Linux as the host system without making the
  tpm passthrough working.

  Versions:
  libvirt0:amd64  6.0.0-0ubuntu8.5
  qemu-kvm        1:4.2-3ubuntu6.8
  virt-manager    1:2.2.1-3ubuntu2.1

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