So I've been trying to get a yubikey passthrough to work for a few days now with no luck. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong or what's wrong with my setup?
**Setup:**\
I'm using ubuntu 18.04 as both host and guest.\
Libvirt for virtualisation
**Procedure:**\
I'm passing through the usb using the following hostdev section:
I boot the VM and verify that the usb was passed through properly with lsusb
. (And it is)\
Then I try yubico-piv-tool -a status
to see if the key is working.
**Results:**\
yubico-piv-tool -a status
returns "Failed to read device".
**Observations:**\
The yubikey functions on the host, yubico-piv-tool -a status
prints as expected.\
The yubikey still shows up on the host after the passthrough when I run lsusb
on the host.\
The yubikey does not function on the host while the passthrough is active.\
I've tried to passthrough the yubikey on a laptop with a windows host on virtualbox and was successful with no extra settings.\
I tried virtualbox on the linux host and was not successful, same results as with libvirt.
While the USB device is not passed through, lsusb -t
shows that it's not assigned to any driver; when passed through, it's owned by the usbfs
driver, and the libvirt-qemu user's qemu-syst
process has the device open.
**My guess:**\
There's missing parameters on the passthrough and the key isn't getting passed entirely (Something CCID/FIDO/OTP related?).\
The virtualization software was not able to disconnect the device from the host.
Asked by Dave Baker
(21 rep)
Nov 15, 2022, 05:26 PM
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