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Description of problem:
tpm12 is no longer supported, when run swtpm socket with default tpm1.2 version,   
the error output is not clear.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
swtpm-0.7.0-1.20211109gitb79fd91.el9.x86_64
libtpms-0.9.0-0.20211004gitdc4e3f6313.el9.x86_64
libvirt-7.9.0-1.el9.x86_64
qemu-kvm-6.1.0-6.el9.x86_64
edk2-ovmf-20210527gite1999b264f1f-7.el9.noarch
kernel-5.14.0-15.el9.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. mkdir /tmp/mytpm
# swtpm_setup  --tpmstate /tmp/mytpm --create-ek-cert --create-platform-cert --overwrite
swtpm at /usr/bin/swtpm does not support TPM 1.2

2. # /usr/bin/swtpm socket --daemon --ctrl type=unixio,path=/tmp/guest-swtpm.sock,mode=0600 --tpmstate dir=/tmp/mytpm,mode=0600 
swtpm: Error: Could not choose TPM version.


Actual results:
Unclear error in step2.

Expected results:
The error message could be improved to state which version was requested and unsupported, similar to step1.

Additional info:

Looks like upstream swtpm commit 6d1a7abbfc3fdbfd4ddf683416318b2fb8d109b2 (after 0.7.0) could resolve this.

The swtpm commands are not supposed to be run by the user manually.

If you configure a libvirt VM with (unsupported on RHEL) TPM 1.2, you'll get the error "swtpm at /usr/bin/swtpm does not support TPM 1.2".

(I thought libvirt was checking the capabilities earlier, but it's not yet the case. The swtpm capabilities features "tpm-1.2" and "tpm-2.0" have been added recently - libvirt will probably handle that at some point)

Based on the above, I think it's not worth to backport the swtpm fix, it will eventually get fixed in a future rebase. Closing, thanks