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

[Sigbjorn Lie]

On Tue, December 4, 2012 14:15, David Jaša wrote:
> Sigbjorn Lie píše v Út 04. 12. 2012 v 12:16 +0100:
>
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>>
>> On Tue, December 4, 2012 08:36, Alon Levy wrote:
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>>>> 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?
>>
>
> RHEV 3.1 does not yet support native spice smartcard remoting but it should be integrated quite
> soon.
>
> If you can not wait, you could use it with 3.1 if you:
> * install smartcard hook on the host and enable it
> * use something on top of rest api that will launch the client with smartcard option enabled.
> (spice-xpi also has the same knob too: 'document.getElementById("<your spice-xpi object
> ID>").Smartcard = true;' it is false by default).
>
>

I can wait, usb redirection works. We don't use the smartcard on Linux, just Windows.

Thank you. :)


Rgds,
Siggi