Bluetooth game controller in VM

[CliffH]

I use a Sony PS4 controller over Bluetooth on a MAC, which works great with the CF client. But in the VM, I can not get the controller to work over Bluetooth. The VM does see the controller, but there is an error when trying to connect it to input. Does anyone have ideas for getting it to work?

[chad]

I use a PS3 bluetooth controller (on Mac) and I never did figure out how to get it to talk to the VM. I always used a USB cable with the VM up until the point I just decided to do all my flying and developing natively on the Mac. I rarely use the VMs now.

[arnaud]

The PS4 controller will not work with bluetooth on the VM unfortunately (Ubuntu ships a too old version of the bluetooth stack ....).

As for the PS3 on VM on mac there is a trick: Mac OS X will take control of the HID device and do not let virtualbox take it over. To solve that you can add the gamepad in the VM configuration so that it gets automatically connected to the VM. This will prevent Mac OS X from locking it.

[chad]

As for the PS3 on VM on mac there is a trick: Mac OS X will take control of the HID device and do not let virtualbox take it over. To solve that you can add the gamepad in the VM configuration so that it gets automatically connected to the VM. This will prevent Mac OS X from locking it.

Hey! Thanks for the trick Arnaud!!