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 _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel