[BRLTTY] redirect braille display to virtual machine

[Paul Scott]

This may not work as I have never figured it out. Mabey forward the brlapi
address from Linux to windows? Abd connect brapi to the shared address.

On Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 9:55 AM Halim Sahin <halim.sahin at freenet.de> wrote:

> Hi Paul and list,
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 05:05:51AM -0500, Paul Scott wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Well this can work when connecting seccond cable from EG. a braille Star
> 80
> using an pl2303 based usb connector, because that display has two
> connector usb and rs232.
>
> Unfortunately my display at the office doesn't have two
> connectors (only usb).
>
> The approach  from Samuel  worked in the past when using kvm directly.
> I was not able  to get that working in libvirt.
>
> More ideas?
> Regards
> Halim
>
>
>
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