John G Heim <jheim@math.wisc.edu> wrote:
I've had my braille display connected to a virtual machine but I think it was a lot of work. You have to get the UUID of the USB device before connecting it to a vm. And the UUID is different every time you boot the vm unless you do something fancy -- exactly what that something is escapes me right now. Normally what you have to do is run a virtualbox command to list the UUID of the device and then cut/paste the UUID into another virtualbox command to connect it to the vm.
Thanks for the summary. I can, of course, do what you describe above, but as you are also suggesting, this is exactly the kind of configuring that shouldn't be necessary. Once only would be fine, but having to do it repeatedly wouldn't be. I appreciate that moving a braille device between host and guest operating systems may not be trivial, perhaps requiring it to be reset depending on its state and the nature of the communication protocol.