VirtualBox

Ticket #2372 (new defect)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 5 months ago

Cannot attach bluetooth usb devices to guest OS from OSX host

Reported by: dadbee Assigned to:
Priority: major Component: USB
Version: VirtualBox 3.0.8 Keywords: bluetooth
Cc: josh@bryantweb.com Guest type: Windows
Host type: Mac OS X

Description

I am unable to attach a Bluetooth device to a guest OS from my OSX host environment. I am able to attach other USB devices, however when I attempt to attach a Bluetooth device, I get the following error:

USB device 'Apple, Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller' with UUID {906cb966-8615-4b75-9775-47f7d6689c2f} is in use by someone else.

Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) Component: HostUSBDevice Interface: IHostUSBDevice {173b4b44-d268-4334-a00d-b6521c9a740a} Callee: IConsole {d5a1cbda-f5d7-4824-9afe-d640c94c7dcf}

I get this error when I try to attach to either a Windows or Linux guest OS from an OSX host.

Change History

2009-01-04 21:12:52 changed by calum

I can confirm the same issue in 2.1.0. Rather annoying, prevents me from using Nokia PC Suite with my phone :/

2009-01-14 16:35:02 changed by rukqoa

Does that mean that Mac OS X is using the bluetooth? If so, is there a way to.. 1. Disable bluetooth at a machine level in mac 2. Find a way so that vbox can "steal" it from mac.

2009-01-14 16:53:45 changed by calum

The Bluetooth daemon (/usr/sbin/blued) is running on the host, but no userspace apps are using the Bluetooth connection at the time AFAICT.

2009-01-15 03:40:23 changed by rukqoa

Try using a USB dongle or try killing the blued process.

2009-01-15 12:31:44 changed by calum

The blued process respawns as soon as you kill it, and I don't have a bluetooth dongle-- not much point when I have bluetooth built in :)

(follow-up: ↓ 7 ) 2009-02-06 22:54:11 changed by bsjeep

Still broken in 2.1.2, I can vouch that this works fine using VMware on Leopard OSX, same macbook. So there's something they do to make it work.

(in reply to: ↑ 6 ) 2009-04-07 11:50:25 changed by chedaille

Replying to bsjeep:

Still broken in 2.1.2, I can vouch that this works fine using VMware on Leopard OSX, same macbook. So there's something they do to make it work.

I have the same issue using VirtualBox 2.1.4 on a TinyXP rev9 VDI.

2009-04-12 10:59:48 changed by kalasz

Issue still exists in 2.2.0 on Unibody MacBook?.

2009-10-08 17:20:56 changed by calum

Still not working in 3.0.8.

2009-10-08 17:53:16 changed by frank

  • version changed from VirtualBox 2.0.2 to VirtualBox 3.0.8.

I fear that it is just not possible to reap the bluetooth device out of the host control.


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