Show HN: Proxmox -> Share your host's Bluetooth with a VM over the network
TL;DR: Bluetooth passthrough to a Proxmox VM fails for Intel onboard chips (BE200, AX210, AX211 - by hardware design, no setting fixes it) and is unreliable on gaming distros like ChimeraOS and Bazzite. This tool shares the host's Bluetooth with the VM over the network instead - two commands, works with any chip Linux supports, survives reboots. Controllers, headphones, and Home Assistant sensors all work.
- ▪TL;DR: Bluetooth passthrough to a Proxmox VM fails for Intel onboard chips (BE200, AX210, AX211 - by hardware design, no setting fixes it) and is unreliable on gaming distros like ChimeraOS and Bazzite.
- ▪This tool shares the host's Bluetooth with the VM over the network instead - two commands, works with any chip Linux supports, survives reboots.
- ▪Controllers, headphones, and Home Assistant sensors all work.
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Bluetooth in your Proxmox Linux VMs. Finally. TL;DR: Bluetooth passthrough to a Proxmox VM fails for Intel onboard chips (BE200, AX210, AX211 - by hardware design, no setting fixes it) and is unreliable on gaming distros like ChimeraOS and Bazzite. This tool shares the host's Bluetooth with the VM over the network instead - two commands, works with any chip Linux supports, survives reboots. Controllers, headphones, and Home Assistant sensors all work. Pair your Xbox / PlayStation controller, headphones, or sensors inside your gaming VM (ChimeraOS, Bazzite, Home Assistant, plain Linux) - even with Bluetooth chips that "can't be passed through". Sound familiar? You built a gaming VM on Proxmox. Everything works... except Bluetooth. Your controller just blinks, blinks, blinks, and gives up.
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