Virtual Box bluetooth

[Xeno26]

I have Kali Linux running inside Virtual Box and the other day I was trying to use the built in blue tooth dongle (on a Lenovo y410p) but Kali said that the device was not found. I figured that I'd have to set it up through Virtual Box. I tried using a COM port but it always said that it couldn't find the dongle so I looked through the USB settings but I couldn't figure out how those settings worked. Does Virtual Box support internal blue tooth dongles and if it does, how do I set it up?

 

Note: I'm not using Kali for any malicious purposes but rather to learn more about the Linux environment and computers in general. If I do use any of the pen testing tools Kali provides, it's used on devices that I own.

[vorticalbox]

normally you mount usb devices in the usb menu on the vm, do you have the addon installed? Also you can try booting kali from a usb and seeing if it works at all. You might find it doesn't have drivers for it.

[Xeno26]

3 minutes ago, vorticalbox said:

normally you mount usb devices in the usb menu on the vm, do you have the addon installed? Also you can try booting kali from a usb and seeing if it works at all. You might find it doesn't have drivers for it.

I do have the addon installed. Should I just look up a video on how to mount a USB?

[vorticalbox]

1 minute ago, Xeno26 said:

I do have the addon installed. Should I just look up a video on how to mount a USB?

when you have the machine running click devices at the top then usb and see if it is in the list.

[Xeno26]

6 minutes ago, vorticalbox said:

when you have the machine running click devices at the top then usb and see if it is in the list.

These is the settings in Kali and when I select blue tooth it says "No blue tooth found. Plug in dongle to use blue tooth"

[samiscool51]

are the virtual box drivers installed?

some features won't work without them, e.g. shared folders

[Xeno26]

1 hour ago, samiscool51 said:

are the virtual box drivers installed?

some features won't work without them, e.g. shared folders

I've downloaded the expansion pack, if that's what you mean.

[samiscool51]

49 minutes ago, Xeno26 said:

I've downloaded the expansion pack, if that's what you mean.

no, guest addonations:

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html

that's what i mean..

when virtualizing a opereating go to

"devices" then the last option "insert guest additions cd"

thats what i mean

[Guest]

sudo apt install virtualbox-guest-additions-iso

[Xeno26]

1 hour ago, samiscool51 said:

no, guest addonations:

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html

that's what i mean..

when virtualizing a opereating go to

"devices" then the last option "insert guest additions cd"

thats what i mean

I will follow the directions on the website, thanks.

[Xeno26]

21 minutes ago, BurningSmile said:

sudo apt install virtualbox-guest-additions-iso

I did that and it downloaded but then it said "Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?". When I ran apt-get update it said " Err:1 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling InRelease Could not resolve 'http.kali.org'" then says that it's reading packing lists then it basically says it couldn't resolve the URL again. When I ran the --fix-missing with the command you gave me and it did what it normally does but at it returned "Internal error, ordering was unable to handle the media swap"

[samiscool51]

1 hour ago, Xeno26 said:

sudo apt install virtualbox-guest-additions-iso

it's sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-additions-iso

you forgot "-get"

that should work and if it doesn't then just use the method i told you in my post

[vorticalbox]

13 hours ago, Xeno26 said:

These is the settings in Kali and when I select blue tooth it says "No blue tooth found. Plug in dongle to use blue tooth"

You have to mount it from virtual box no in the guest OS

[jj9987]

12 hours ago, samiscool51 said:

it's sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-additions-iso

you forgot "-get"

that should work and if it doesn't then just use the method i told you in my post

Works both ways on some OSes.

[Guest]

15 hours ago, samiscool51 said:

it's sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-additions-iso

you forgot "-get"

that should work and if it doesn't then just use the method i told you in my post

Apt should work on modern distros. Try apt-get to see that does anything. I have never messed with kali. So it may not be in the repos. In which case do it manually. 

 

First insert the virtualbox guest additions cd image. You can do this from the devices menu.

 

Next open a terminal

sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt

cd /mnt

sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

 

Also just an fyi bluetooth under linux is finicky at best.

[ProjectBox153]

Just a heads up, if it's not a USB dongle you have added then it likely won't show up in USB devices. 

[Xeno26]

11 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Just a heads up, if it's not a USB dongle you have added then it likely won't show up in USB devices. 

It is indeed an internal card but is there anyway I could make it appear as a USB?

[ProjectBox153]

9 hours ago, Xeno26 said:

It is indeed an internal card but is there anyway I could make it appear as a USB?

If it doesn't appear as a USB device to the host, you probably won't. I can, for instance, connect my webcam to a VM because the host sees it as USB (although it's built into the laptop). But I can't forward my Wi-FI card. 

[Xeno26]

13 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

If it doesn't appear as a USB device to the host, you probably won't. I can, for instance, connect my webcam to a VM because the host sees it as USB (although it's built into the laptop). But I can't forward my Wi-FI card. 

Thanks, I don't think it will work then but I appreciate the help.