title: WinCE 6.0 on VMWare Player - access host USB Bluetooth dongle
body: <p>I made an WinCE 6.0 R2 image and load it into VMWare Player 3.1.3. The host operating system is a Windows XP Sp3. I followed this <a href="http://www.eminsenay.com/blog/?p=292" rel="nofollow">article</a> and all worked fine (the article uses VMWare Workstation, but it worked fine also with VMWare Player). </p>
  
  <p>My final goal is from the virtual machine WinCE to use the Bluetooth USB dongle attached to the Windows XP host computer. In the WinCE image I had added support for Bluetooth USB like in this Mike Hall's <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mikehall/archive/2005/04/14/408184.aspx" rel="nofollow">post</a>. Also I want to mention that I had included support for USB Host when I created the BSP, and also USB drivers are checked.</p>
  
  <p>When I go in WinCE -> Control Panel -> Bluetooth Device Properties, Bluetooth Manager is launched. But if I try to make a "Scan device" I am getting the following error:</p>
  
  <p><em><strong>Bluetooth hardware error 10050 (controller not present)</em></strong></p>
  
  <p>But the dongle is attached to the VMWare Player and disconnected from the host, so theoretically the transport layer is controlled by the virtual machine and WinCE can talk with EHCI of the USB.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone give me a hint to follow? Any suggestions are welcome.</p>