[Spice-devel] smartcard usage

Alon Levy alevy at redhat.com
Thu Feb 24 11:10:20 PST 2011


On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 05:46:33PM +0100, william wrote:
> On 02/24/2011 05:09 PM, Alon Levy wrote:
> >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?
> Nah forget this
> i did not switch to v20 that was the problem.

I still don't understand, but it would be nice if you could do your
tests with the last version, v20, even if the changes are just cosmetic.

> >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!
> ok here is what i see now
> 
> - on my local system i have:
> #lsusb
> Bus 007 Device 008: ID 04e6:5410 SCM Microsystems, Inc. SCR35xx
> Smart Card Reader
> #pcsc_scan
> PC/SC device scanner
> V 1.4.16 (c) 2001-2009, Ludovic Rousseau <ludovic.rousseau at free.fr>
> Compiled with PC/SC lite version: 1.5.3
> Scanning present readers...
> 0: SCM SCR 355 00 00
> 
> Thu Feb 24 17:36:04 2011
>  Reader 0: SCM SCR 355 00 00
>   Card state: Card inserted,
>   ATR: 3B F9 18 00 00 81 31 FE 45xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> - Now when i start qemu like the following
> #./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
> 
> - i see this in my vm after starting spicec with the following options
> #spicec -h localhost -p 5930
> #lsusb
> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 08e6:4433 Gemplus GemPC433-Swap
> #pcsc_scan
> PC/SC device scanner
> V 1.4.16 (c) 2001-2009, Ludovic Rousseau <ludovic.rousseau at free.fr>
> Compiled with PC/SC lite version: 1.5.3
> Scanning present readers...
> 0: Gemplus GemPC4433 SL (1) 00 00
> 
> Thu Feb 24 17:42:05 2011
>  Reader 0: Gemplus GemPC4433 SL (1) 00 00
>   Card state: Card removed,
> 
> 
> After removing the device from my local machine and starting the vm
> again with the above options it still shows me the gemplus smartcard
> reader
> 
> Any hints from here?
> 

Yes. It looks like the guest sees the ccid device (that's the Gemplus,
you can see it's qemu if you do lsusb), but no card. The reason for the
later is that spicec didn't see any card. That's why I suggested trying to
run spicec as root - the bottom line is that you need to make sure NSS
can see the device as a regular user. I'll try to supply better instructions
later.

> With kind regards
> 
> William van de Velde
> 
> 
> 
> >>With kind regards
> >>
> >>William
> >>
> >>
> >>>>With kind regards
> >>>>
> >>>>William
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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