Why starting Windows Virtual machine with vTPM device is failing with permission denied error?

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Issue

  • Starting Windows Virtual machine with vTPM device is failing with following error:
    message: 'server error. command SyncVMI failed: "LibvirtError(Code=38, Domain=0,
      Message=''Could not create TPM directory /var/run/kubevirt-private/libvirt/qemu/swtpm/67633203-8c32-53ad-935c-5abd8139f0e9:
      Permission denied'')"'
  • The storage used is IBM FlashSystem with IBM block CSI driver.

Environment

  • OpenShift Virtualization 4.18.
  • IBM FlashSystem with IBM block CSI driver.

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