[ltp] Bluetooth via vmware

[Pintér Balázs]

Andrew Barr wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
I simply turned on bluetooth with Fn-F5 when vmware had focus, and the 
bluetooth device was recognized by Windows XP (IBM Integrated Bluetooth 
II), and the bluetooth icon showed in system tray.

I am using vmware 5.5.1 under gentoo linux.

Regards: Balazs Pinter