[BRLTTY] redirect braille display to virtual machine

[Samuel Thibault]

Paul Scott, le ven. 20 mars 2026 12:09:07 -0500, a ecrit:
> Mabey forward the brlapi address from Linux to windows? Abd connect
> brapi to the shared address.

That is technically possible, yes, but the essential problem that
remains is to switch automatically as needed. The libvirt-native case is
the same question, so better fix it that way.

Samuel

> On Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 9:55 AM Halim Sahin <[1]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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