Just confirming the bug. I'm having the same issues with the same USB smart card reader as the submitter (Kobil mIDentity) on Debian Squeeze using the qemu-kvm version 1.2.0 from debian-backports. Going back to 1.0 fixes the problem (http://snapshot.debian.org/package/qemu-kvm/1.0%2Bdfsg-8~bpo60%2B1).
Since I can easily toggle between versions i could provide more support, if wanted and instructions provided...
Just confirming the bug. I'm having the same issues with the same USB smart card reader as the submitter (Kobil mIDentity) on Debian Squeeze using the qemu-kvm version 1.2.0 from debian-backports. Going back to 1.0 fixes the problem (http:// snapshot. debian. org/package/ qemu-kvm/ 1.0%2Bdfsg- 8~bpo60% 2B1).
Since I can easily toggle between versions i could provide more support, if wanted and instructions provided...