9.7.9. Enabling and Disabling Smart cards

Summary

The following procedure explains how to enable and disable the Smart card feature for virtual machines.

Procedure 9.21. Enabling and Disabling Smart cards

Ensure that the Smart card hardware is plugged into the client machine and is installed according to manufacturer's directions.
Select the desired virtual machine, and click the Edit button. The Edit Virtual Machine window will appear.
Select the Console tab, and tick the check box labeled Smartcard enabled, then click Ok.
Run the virtual machine by clicking the Console icon or through the User Portal; Smart card authentication is now passed from the client hardware to the virtual machine.
To disable Smart card authentication, return to the Edit Virtual Machine window and untick the Smartcard enabled check box.

Result

You can now enable and disable Smart card authentication on virtual machines.

Important

If the Smart card hardware is not correctly installed, enabling the Smart card feature will result in the virtual machine failing to load properly.