Bluetooth-Sharing From Mac to PC, Parallels 8, Windows 7

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Basis.stellios

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I just got a MacBook Pro, i5 processor but am having trouble sharing bluetooth. I ran through this step (http://kb.parallels.com/en/114686), turned on bluetooth on my mac, but don't have a way to validate that it's available in my Windows VM (either this or my project over there isn't working).

In parallels desktop, when I select Devices>>USB>>Apple Bluetooth USB Host Controller, I see a popup in the Windows VM showing that it's trying to install the device driver. It eventually fails then I get the message:
"Please insert the Mac OS X installation DVD into you Mac - if it launches the Boot Camp installer in Windows, quit it. In Windows, browse to the /Drivers/Apple folder on the DVD and double-click AppleBluetoothInstaller.exe to install Apple Bluetooth drivers. For details, see
www.parallels.com/products/desktop/pdfm8-kb-5962-en_US

I follow the link only to find that it's not relevant to Parallels 8. Can somebody please help me share bluetooth with my Windows 7 VM? If there's a little test I can do to validate it on the VM too that would be amazing.

Thank you,

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OSX 10.8.3
Parallels 8, Build 8.0.18483
Windows 7 Pro 64 bit VM
 
I am also interested on having this working for Parallels 8. I have a bluetooth headphone that I would like to use with my VM, mainly because of multimedia keys, since they are not passed to the VM and thus consumed by iTunes.
 
Configure > Hardware > USB & Bluetooth > Automatic Sharing: Bluetooth Devices
 
I have done that, however Windows 8 can't seem to recognize my bluetooth headphone, thus I am not able to use multimedia keys with Xbox Music.
 
Specimen said:
Configure > Hardware > USB & Bluetooth > Automatic Sharing: Bluetooth Devices
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No, that does NOT solve it. I updated my parallels tools, I updated the bootcamp bluetooth driver AppleBluetoothInstaller64.exe, I ran through a bunch of tutorials and it STILL does not work. I talked to a representative who could not solve my problem and supposedly escalated the issue but gave no timeline on when someone could back to me.

Someone out there, please help!
 
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