How to enable Bluetooth in VirtualBox Running Windows XP

[NEILCONFUSED]

Hi,

I am using Virtualbox to run Windows XP. One of my Windows applications (Sunnyboy SMA Inverter software) uses Bluetooth and I cannot get Bluetooth to work in VirtualBox.

When I tried to enable it in VB using Devices/USB Devices/Apple Inc Bluetooth USB Host Controller [0100] either via the menus or the USB icon at the bottom of the screen I get the error dialog with the message :

Failed to attach the USB device Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller [0100] to the virtual machine Sharescope VM.
USB device 'Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller' with UUID {114a750c-fa94-49e0-b020-979ed522f973} is in use by someone else.
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: HostUSBDevice
Interface: IHostUSBDevice {173b4b44-d268-4334-a00d-b6521c9a740a}
Callee: IConsole {db7ab4ca-2a3f-4183-9243-c1208da92392}

It seems to be a common problem and, having trawled the internet, I have tried various solutions to no avail, such as

moving "blued" in /user/sbin to another folder and rebooting,


Also renaming these two below from /System/Library/Extenstions and rebooting

IOBluetoothfamily.kext
IOBluetoothHIDDriver.kext


I'm using a recent Macbook Pro running OSX 10.8.3

Does anyone know of a solution ? The simpler and neater the better, if possible. Thanks

[ChipMcK]

Does anyone know of a solution ? The simpler and neater the better, if possible. Thanks

• 1. Google search bluetooth site:forums.virtualbox.org
  2. promising viewtopic.php?p=55229

[NEILCONFUSED]

Got it working. Had to use a BT Dongle, though

Thanks for you help.