[Spice-devel] smartcard usage

[Alon Levy]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:17:21AM +0100, kc at cobradevil.org wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> i have tried to get smartcard support running but i'm a bit lost :)
> probably because it's not finished yet.
> 
> we have smartcards with certificates like us dod and i would like to use
> those from a client on a remote server for authentication and such.
> I have followed the build instructions:
> http://spice-space.org/page/Building_Instructions on a ubuntu system and
> have managed to get those compiled.
> 
> But when i try to start a vm with smartcard passthrough it asks me to give
> a driver name?
> 
> ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -chardev
> socket,server,host=0.0.0.0,port=2001,id=ccid,nowait -device
> ccid-card-passthru,chardev=ccid -drive
> file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/test.img,if=ide -soundhw ac97 -L pc-bios
> -nographic -vga qxl -spice port=5930,disable-ticketing  -usbdevice tablet
> -enable-kvm -m 512
> 
> do_spice_init: starting 0.6.3
> spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_KEYBOARD
> spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_MOUSE
> spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_QXL
> red_worker_main: begin
> spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_RECORD
> spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_PLAYBACK
> qemu-system-x86_64: -device ccid-card-passthru,chardev=ccid: Parameter
> 'driver' expects a driver name
> Try with argument '?' for a list.
> 
> Am i starting the vm the right way or am i missing something?

You are doing the right steps with the wrong qemu. To be explicit: qemu hasn't
accepted the patches for the smartcard devices yet, so I don't know where you
got the qemu executable but unless you built it by hand and applied the patches
on the list, or easier used the pull url I provide in the patches I sent (like v20
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/~alon/qemu usb_ccid.v20) you won't have them.

Alon

> 
> With kind regards
> 
> William
> 
> 
> 
> 
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