Hi, Faraz, Sorry, you can’t use S/W TPM for Intel Trusted Execution Technology/Trusted Boot(tboot). Since TXT/tboot requires H/W TPM on bare metal host in the pre-OS phase. You need to use an Intel TXT capable system, and make TXT enabled. Thanks Jimmy From: Muhammad Faraz Hyder [mailto:farazhyder55 at gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 9:56 PM To: openstack-security at lists.openstack.org Subject: [Openstack-security] Software TPM Emulators for Trusted boot Can I use software based TPM for Trusted boot. I have configured IBM's software TPM. and I need some guidance , the documentation for the trusted boot openstack says that compute node must have Intel Trusted Technology enabled. Please guide in this regard. Regards, Faraz -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-security/attachments/20141013/0d9923ea/attachment.html>