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6.3.3 Drive redirection
The Drive Redirection is another possibility to use a virtual disc drive on the remote
computer. With Drive Redirection you do not have to use an image file but may work with a
drive from your local computer on the remote machine. The drive is hereby shared over a
TCP network connection. Devices such as floppy drives, hard discs, CD ROMs and other
removable devices like USB sticks can be redirected. It is even possible to enable a write
support so that for the remote machine it is possible to write data to your local disc.
Figure 6-14. Options of Drive Redirection
Please note that Drive Redirection works on a level which is far below the operating system.
That means that neither the local nor the remote operating system is aware that the drive is
currently redirected, actually. This may lead to inconsistent data as soon as one of the
operating systems (either from the local machine, or from the remote host) is writing data
on the device. If write support is enabled the remote computer might damage the data and
the file system on the redirected device. On the other hand, if the local operating system
writes data to the redirected device the drive cache of the operating system of the remote
host might contain older data. This may confuse the remote host’s operating system. We
recommend to use the Drive Redirection with care, especially the write support.
