Proxmox -> Share your host's Bluetooth with a VM over the network
Details
- External ID
- 49050824
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Proxmox -> Share your host's Bluetooth with a VM over the network
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 27
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7700119474313023
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- share host's bluetooth with vm over network
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Network-sharing host Bluetooth controllers to KVM/QEMU virtual machines requires deep Linux kernel, USB/IP, and BlueZ HCI subsystem knowledge.
What it would actually take: Requires specialized Linux kernel and virtualization systems expertise. The architecture involves encapsulating Bluetooth HCI sockets or raw USB device packets over a custom network transport (e.g., via USB/IP or a custom BlueZ vhci daemon) and integrating with QEMU device emulation hooks on Proxmox.
Discussion
14 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: USB passthrough with external Bluetooth dongle, BlueZ native installation on Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora
Concerns raised: curl | bash installer distributes opaque binaries that could be malware, License compliance issues (GPL-2.0, LGPL-2.1, BSD-2-Clause not properly disclosed), Binary is redistributed third-party software (BlueZ btproxy) with unclear provenance, First unauthenticated client request winning is a security concern, Low trust in new repository asking for root on hypervisor
Feature requests: Distribute as proper package formats (.deb, .rpm) instead of curl | bash, Get btproxy packaged in Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora package managers, Provide manual installation instructions as primary method instead of automated script
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 154 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #44 of 155 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 263 days after the earliest competitor.
- Proxee · hn · 2026-06-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Xover-windows · github · 2026-09-19 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Hosting 100 Linux dev environments on one VM using LXC · hn · 2026-01-10 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Walkie-Talkie Toy over WiFi/Tailscale on Raspberry Pi · hn · 2026-01-03 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Rdio · hn · 2026-08-14 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware · hn · 2026-05-09 · 123 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- vmup · github · 2026-09-12 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- BitBang · hn · 2026-07-31 · 97 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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