Re: Vote against removing the bluetooth subsystem from Quemu.

[Thomas Huth]

On 17/12/2019 15.17, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 at 14:13, Andreas Scheucher
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I found following note in the Qemu documentation: This option and the whole 
>> bluetooth subsystem is considered as deprecated. If you still use it, please 
>> send a mail to address@hidden where you describe your usecase.
> 
>> As GPU passthrough is becoming more and more common (to run Linux / Windows 
>> / Mac OS X simultaneously on the same host to prevent multiboot) on desktop 
>> systems, support for the use of the host Bluetooth device in Quemu VMs for 
>> sure will be a common use case: https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/
> 
>> For me personally I just want to set up a setup supporting Windows & Linux 
>> to use the first strong nVidia GPU for occasional gaming on Windows and 
>> video editing with DaVinci Resolve under CentOs.
> 
> Hi; thanks for your response. It's not clear from your email:
> do you mean that you *currently, today* have a setup which uses
> QEMU's bluetooth support; or do you just mean that you have
> an idea for how you would like to use it in future ? The request
> for users was really aimed mostly at finding if we had
> any current users, because as far as we could tell the
> code we have at the moment is just broken and doesn't
> work at all.

Right, if you have the QEMU bluetooth code in use somehow, please
provide more details how you're using it (i.e. the QEMU command line
etc.). Otherwise, be assured that the current bluetooth code won't be of
any help for your topic, since it is likely completely broken. You then
better pass-through a dedicated USB bluetooth adapter from your host to
your instead, or simply use emulated USB mouse and keyboard with your
macOS guest.

 Thomas