[Spice-devel] smartcard usage

[Alon Levy]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 04:28:13PM +0100, william wrote:
> On 02/24/2011 12:09 PM, Alon Levy wrote:
> >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
> >
> Sorry for the priv mail :(
> i can start the vm now with the usb_ccid.v19  git 20 gives me compile errors
> 
> ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -chardev
> socket,server,host=0.0.0.0,port=2001,id=ccid,nowait -device usb-ccid
> -device ccid-card-passthru,chardev=ccid -drive
> file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/test.img,if=ide  -soundhw ac97 -L
> pc-bios -nographic -spice port=5930,disable-ticketing -usbdevice
> tablet -enable-kvm -m 512 -device
> virtio-net-pci,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:f4:f5:0b -net user
> do_spice_init: starting 0.7.3
> spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_KEYBOARD
> spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_MOUSE
> spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_RECORD
> spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_PLAYBACK
> spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_QXL
> red_worker_main: begin
> handle_dev_input: start
> 
> I also installed spice 0.7.3
> 
> When starting the spicec client i can connect but how can i share
> say a local device now through spicec to the guest?
> On the local client i can run pcsc_scan and it returns my reader and
> detects my card, would that also be possible on the guest?
> 

about v20 if you can run make V=1 and post the output?

about the rest, yes, the guest should show the card too using pcsc_scan.

you shouldn't need to be root on the client, but possibly it will work then -
could you try that? in that case I don't remember exactly what the solution was :(
but there is one!

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