Method and system for providing a trusted platform module in a hypervisor environment

A method for implementing a trusted computing environment within a data processing system, the method comprising:

• initializing a hypervisor within the data processing system, wherein the hypervisor supervises a plurality of logical, partitionable, runtime environments within the data processing system;
• reserving a logical partition for a hypervisor-based trusted platform module (TPM) which provides integrity measurements for a software state of the data processing system;
• presenting the hypervisor-based trusted platform module to logical partitions as a virtual device via a device interface;
• creating by the hypervisor multiple logical partitions within the data processing system;
• instantiating multiple logical TPM's within the reserved partition, wherein the logical TPM's are anchored to the hypervisor-based TPM;
• and
• managing the multiple logical TPM's within the reserved partition such that each logical TPM is uniquely associated with a logical partition.