[opensuse] Prevent system from grabbing USB bluetooth dongles?
Hi, I'm trying to use US BT dongles in a virtual box but vbox can't attach them because the host won't release them. I'm not really familiar with hardware-stuff... How can I tell the host to not grab the BT USB dongles in the first place, so the vbox can grab them? -S -- (o_ Stefan Gofferje | SCLT, MCP, CCSA //\ Reg'd Linux User #247167 | VCP #2263 V_/_ Heckler & Koch - the original point and click interface
* Stefan Gofferje <lists-opensuse@home.gofferje.net> [03-25-14 05:54]:
I'm trying to use US BT dongles in a virtual box but vbox can't attach them because the host won't release them. I'm not really familiar with hardware-stuff... How can I tell the host to not grab the BT USB dongles in the first place, so the vbox can grab them?
What manager are you using for your virtual box and what version of openSUSE? fwiw, works for me on VBox 4.3.8 r92456 and Tumbleweed for win7, but I must designate the VB has access to the bluetooth dongle. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2014-03-25 13:00, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
fwiw, works for me on VBox 4.3.8 r92456 and Tumbleweed for win7, but I must designate the VB has access to the bluetooth dongle.
I don't know. I was testing the thing in a windows virtual machine, with vmware player, the other day, and Winodws was unable to do anything, although it detected it. At some point, I noticed that the XFCE desktop thing (the new one they proposed on factory) had grabbed it again. And apparently VMware player also showed it... So I'm unsure what happened. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2014-03-25 at 13:52 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2014-03-25 13:00, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
fwiw, works for me on VBox 4.3.8 r92456 and Tumbleweed for win7, but I must designate the VB has access to the bluetooth dongle.
I don't know. I was testing the thing in a windows virtual machine, with vmware player, the other day, and Winodws was unable to do anything, although it detected it. At some point, I noticed that the XFCE desktop thing (the new one they proposed on factory) had grabbed it again. And apparently VMware player also showed it... So I'm unsure what happened.
I found out why. Vmware player has a setting, active by default, to share bluetooth devices between host and guest. It is on the configuration of the usb port. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlM1ekAACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WBrwCdHm1gvIu8vJRI6T/t4fMJaoEC iQQAn344YOJJawiqMv7CzQGy7rLj/CVD =Eg4T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 03/25/2014 02:00 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
What manager are you using for your virtual box and what version of openSUSE?
Opensuse 12.3. Manager? The GUI you mean? Usually I don't. I use vboxmanage. Anyways the problem is solved - just blacklisted bluetooth and btusb in /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist. The original problem persists... I'm moving the services on my home server into virtual machines, for easier maintenance, backup and also more flexibility. One major problem I have since 11.4 was that the USB was flaky. The whole subsystem tended to freeze and especially with my asterisk, I had major problems. chan_mobile (bluetooth connection to cellphone) would work for 1, maybe 2 days and then I would get tons of hci timeouts. I read a lot about that and that seemed to be fixed in 3.9 or so, so I installed Ubuntu server in a VM and moved my asterisk over. Unfortunately, the problems persist. So, next step is hardware update of the server (anyways planned for months) and then reinstalling it with some more modern distro. I might try tumbleweed as host OS - let's see. -S -- (o_ Stefan Gofferje | SCLT, MCP, CCSA //\ Reg'd Linux User #247167 | VCP #2263 V_/_ Heckler & Koch - the original point and click interface
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