[BRLTTY] redirect braille display to virtual machine

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Tue Mar 17 07:18:04 UTC 2026


Hello,

Halim Sahin, le mar. 17 mars 2026 05:29:09 +0100, a ecrit:
> Unfortunately, it is sometimes necessary to use Windows at work. For
> this, I use a VM running in virt-manager. Unfortunately,
> I don’t have a good solution for using the braille display inside the VM
> as well. Is there perhaps a solution for this that I’m not aware of?

With the kvm/qemu virtualization engine, you can use braille USB device,
which will emulate a baum device to the VM, and proxy the braille
output/input through brlapi.

Samuel


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