[PATCH v3 9/9] docs/news.xml: update for the new TPM Proxy device

Stefan Berger stefanb at linux.ibm.com
Thu May 14 13:18:38 UTC 2020


On 5/13/20 3:30 PM, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413 at gmail.com>


Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb at linux.ibm.com>


> ---
>   docs/news.xml | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
> index 4cef804aac..c22a0f0a18 100644
> --- a/docs/news.xml
> +++ b/docs/news.xml
> @@ -44,6 +44,23 @@
>   <libvirt>
>     <release version="v6.4.0" date="unreleased">
>       <section title="New features">
> +      <change>
> +        <summary>
> +          qemu: add TPM Proxy device support
> +        </summary>
> +        <description>
> +          libvirt can now create guests using a new device type called
> +          "TPM Proxy". The TPM Proxy connects to a TPM Resource Manager
> +          present in the host, enabling the guest to run in secure virtual
> +          machine mode with the help of an Ultravisor. Adding a TPM Proxy to
> +          a pSeries guest brings no security benefits unless the guest is
> +          running on a PPC64 host that has Ultravisor and TPM Resource Manager
> +          support. Only one TPM Proxy is allowed per guest. A guest using
> +          a TPM Proxy device can instantiate another TPM device at the same
> +          time. This device is supported only for pSeries guests via the new
> +          'spapr-tpm-proxy' model of the TPM 'passthrough' backend.
> +        </description>
> +      </change>
>       </section>
>       <section title="Improvements">
>       </section>





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