Sound gets awkward while wearing Bluetooth Headset on MacOS

[Sironheart]

Vagrant version

Vagrant 2.2.5

Host operating system

MacOS

Expected behavior

Everything should stay as it is before the start of the VM

Actual behavior

As soon as I start a virtualbox and I wear bluetooth headsets the sound gets really awkward and the microphone turns on. After a few seconds everything gets back to normal. This is currently fixable by adding the following to the provider part of the Vagrantfile, but I think this should be the default behavior, if possible.

Fix for Vagrantfile:

machine.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vbox|
  ...
  vbox.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--audio", "none"]
  ...
end

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a virtualbox Machine, while wearing bluetooth headset.
2. Start VM without the fix
3. Listen to music or something via headset. The sound should get awkward.

References

Are there any other GitHub issues (open or closed) that should be linked here?
For example:

• (Kitchen-Vagrant Issue)[https://github.com/audio sound on macOS changes when VM is created test-kitchen/kitchen-vagrant#388]

[briancain]

Hi there @Sironheart - This is actually a result of how the box is packaged, not something Vagrant is setting. You can get more context on this issue here: #10430. The fix you have is correct. If you don't wish to use that customize command, you could repackage the Vagrant box with that customize command, or make a request to the box owner to do the same thing. You could also make it a global option for all virtualbox guests if you set it with the config option like config.vm.provider "virtualbox"... some where inside your Vagrantfile.

Sorry for the trouble!

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