panda VS swtpm

It's great to see new projects in this space! I wonder if you have compared Cannoli to panda [0]. If so, what was the outcome - especially regarding the performance?

[0] https://github.com/panda-re/panda

The basis for doing this from the hypervisor is Operating System Introspection (OSI). PANDA supports Windows OSI (https://github.com/panda-re/panda/tree/dev/panda/plugins/wintrospection) so I'd imagine similar techniques could be applied.

Another helpful option if you're trying to get traces out is `-d nochain`, which turns off translation block chaining (chaining inserts a direct jump from one block to the next, which can cause logging statements to be skipped).

Also, if anyone is interested in using QEMU for whole system reverse engineering, allow me to shill PANDA, which adds a plugin API, record/replay, and a nice Python interface for all of this:

https://panda.re/

I've had difficulty getting it working in the past. Dunno if capev2 or panda.re have docker options (panda.re is qemu based so I doubt they do, possibly capev2)

Operating System Introspection (Windows and Linux)

Or you can just add a virtual tpm device in virt-manager while setting up the vm using swtpm. It seems to ha e packages on most major distro's.

If you want Windows 11 instead for whatever reason, swtpm can emulate a TPM chip for QEMU to use.

You can find the source of software TPM implementations which abide to the official spec such as: https://github.com/stefanberger/swtpm but that has no real bearings on the TPM used on real hardware

I install swtpm and in virt-manager add a TPM 2.0 emulated device and set the secure boot image before I install. This seems to work well enough.

I don't know either, but apparently Microsoft didn't guarantee that 'unsupported' systems would continue to receive system updates. I just use a QEMU VM and swtpm.

swtpm - a software Trusted Platform Module emulator and the ways of using it;

Seems there are two such projects for that:

https://github.com/stefanberger/swtpm

This should work: https://github.com/stefanberger/swtpm/wiki

Linux has several TPM emulators. This one is probably the most popular. But here's another for TPM 1.2 only. The main use-case is to emulate TPMs for use with Virtual Machine guests.

Other GitHub posts from previous versions seem to have the issue described here but maybe I missed something, https://github.com/stefanberger/swtpm/issues/572 I'm on an arch install and just installed it from pacman.