[ltp] Bluetooth via vmware

[Andrew Barr]

On Wednesday 05 July 2006 10:06, Richard Neill wrote:

> When I tried VMWare 2 years back, I had a very similar situation with a
> USB device. Yes, you must unload the Linux driver (think of 2 processes
> trying to access the same file). Whether it will then work in vmware, I
> can't say.

I think it will. I have an external USB Bluetooth dongle, and I have 
successfully used it in that kind of setup. The internal IBM Bluetooth is a 
USB device, so you just need to unload the hci_usb Linux kernel module and 
ensure that Bluetooth is enabled under /proc/acpi/ibm.

> 2)Also try running your windows app (the one that wants bluetooth) under
> wine.

The only way for this to work is if the app just opens a serial port to do 
Bluetooth--then you could map COM1: to /dev/rfcomm0 (or whatever). If it uses 
any kind of APIs to interact with the Bluetooth device on Windows it is 
unlikely to work.

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