VM Installation - Bluetooth Error

Installation
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Hello Home Assistant Community,

I’m completely new with HA and I wanted to test it on a VM before buying hardware to set it up.

I followed the tutorial to create a VM on VMware Player 16. I was able to start the VM and visit the http://homeassistant.local:8123/ Page. At the beginning I got the message, that it will up to 20minutes to install. After around 3 minutes i received a message that something went wrong. In the background on my VM I saw following error message:

debugfs: FIle ‘dut_mode’ in directory ‘hci0’ already present!
Bluetooth: hci0: unexpected cc 0x0c12 failed length: 2 < 3
Bluetooth: hci0 Opcode 0x0c12 failed: -38

These error repeated every minute. I already try to start from scratch, with the same result.

Do you have any hints for me, how to proceed?

Thanks

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Just disable Bluetooth on the host

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Life could be so easy sometimes. Worked well, thanks!

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Just to be clear, you can disable the troughput from the host to the VM in Workstation. I that way you don’t need to disable it on the host.

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@rstolpe, is that option only available in Pro? I’m not finding it in Player.

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I’m not sure, I do use the Pro version.

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It’s weird, I’m getting the same error on a fresh HA 11.5 / VMware Workstation 17.5.0 install even with Bluetooth disabled on the host:

BluetoothError
BluetoothError885×503 32.9 KB

I’m seeing the same errors …
BluetoothError2

Follow-up Edit:
Deleted integration and rebooted HA - Bluetooth device reappears!? It’s like HA sees right through VMware to the actual hardware and wants to connect to it. Disabled Bluetooth integration and the problem disappeared.

HA also wanted to connect to wifi printer - which was also disabled in VMware. Disabled printer integration in HA.