[Spice-devel] Native USB redirection does not work - (remote-viewer) did not claim interface 0 before use

[Sigbjorn Lie]

On Tue, December 4, 2012 08:36, Alon Levy wrote:
>> On 12/02/2012 11:58 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/30/2012 03:40 PM, Sigbjorn Lie wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have disabled pcscd with chkconfig and rebooted. After the
>>>> reboot I attempted to connect to the VDI and share my smart card reader again. The same issue
>>>> occured.
>>>
>>>
>>> ifdhandler is still messing with the reader while spice tries to use it, I would have expected
>>> the stopping of pcscd to also stop ifdhandler, but it seems I was wrong. Please also disable
>>> ifdhandler, I suspect that will solve your issue.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> And that worked just fine.  I can forward my smart card reader to the
>> Win 7 VDI now. Thank you.
>>
>>
>> Would you consider this to be a bug?
>>
>>
>> Is this the best way to share my smartcard reader with my Win 7 VDI?
>> I noticed some specific smartcard options to the remote-viewer. What
>> is the purpose of these?
>
> There is an additional dedicated smartcard channel that you can use. It is meant for using a
> smartcard in the guest while keeping the ability to use the smartcard in the client. With usb
> remoting you do not have access to the smartcard device on the client. Usage is like:
>
> remote-viewer --spice-smartcard <other options>
>
> It works well with linux guests, but we don't have recent reports on windows guests working,
> although it was tested more then a year ago.
>
> I'll be happy to have new reports..
>
>

I am using RHEV 3.1 beta (for a proof of consept for using RHEV for VDI), and remote-viewer is
being started via the RHEV user portal/spice-xpi. How can I add this --spice-smartcard option?

What does the --spice-smartcard option depend on in Linux?


Regards,
Siggi