On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Jeremy White jwhite@codeweavers.com wrote:
Attaching a 15 USD smart card reader to any of them and making it work in Windows would make winscard support get alive in Wine. Inserting any old credit card with chip (very common at least in Brazil) or any other 1 USD contact card would make all kinds of tests work. A sample reader that also should be supported by pcsclite is at [1]
[1] http://www.amazon.com/HID-Global-Corporation-R30210015-1-OMNIKEY/dp/B003BKV4...
Just to clarify - it wouldn't be attaching just one reader, right? If we have 4 test systems, then ideally, we'd attach 4 of these readers, so that all the machines would test identically, right?
Thanks for the reply, I was thinking about an overly simple solution where we could have a single reader connected to a physical machine and somehow exposed to a single virtual machine which would run XP or Windows 7. My virtualization knowledge is limited to vmware player so all I know is to right click and attach the usb reader, sorry =)
The differences between XP and after XP for the main winscard functions are minimal so I don't think we need more than one reader to do it but certainly it wouldn't hurt.
As for the reader brand/model the only important thing is to ensure the reader is PC/SC compatible, because some may be proprietary driver driven or simplified card ID to HID converters.
Best wishes, Bruno