Why there is an error while attaching smartcard reader device in RHEL 9?

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Issue

  • While attempting to add a smartcard to a virtual machine in KVM, receiving error message during build process:
Unsupported configuration: this QEMU binary lacks smartcard passthrough mode support.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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