[BRLTTY] redirect braille display to virtual machine

[Paul Scott]

Hi, I remember few years back I solved by using  separate USB Bluetooth
dongle for virtualbox for brltty and Linux on Windows, perhaps try the same
approach with windows in vm?

On Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 11:34 PM Halim Sahin <halim.sahin at freenet.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 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?
>
> My idea is that the braille display would need to be released when the
> virt-manager window has focus. Of course, you can stop BRLTTY as root
> and then pass the device through to the VM, but that’s not exactly
> convenient. Do you have any ideas or even a solution for this?
> Thx in Advance,
>
> Halim
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