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11.2 Virtual Media
The CAT5 8-PORT/16-PORT IP-KVM provides a powerful feature called Virtual Media
(or Virtual Disk). The CAT5 8-PORT/16-PORT IP-KVM can present either a local floppy
disk image (stored on the CAT5 8-PORT/16-PORT IP-KVM) or a redirected remote
CD/DVD-ROM image (redirected from the Remote computer) to the target computer
through the built-in USB port. This can allow for system recovery in conditions including
disk failure or no primary network connection on the target computer.
Drive Redirection allows you to share (redirect) your local drive (floppy drives, hard disks,
CD ROMs and other removable devices like USB sticks) with the remote system over a
TCP network connection. Thus, with Drive Redirection, you can use a virtual disk drive
on the remote computer instead of an image file. It is also possible to enable a remote
machine to write data to your local disk.
Before go ahead with this setup, both remote user computer and local computer (the one
connected with the CAT5 8-PORT/16-PORT IP-KVM unit) would have to have Operating
System Win2000, XP or above. This function would not work on other platforms at this
moment.
Before using Virtual Media, please connect the USB cable from CAT5 8-PORT/16-PORT
IP-KVM to host computer. After connecting the USB cable, you can see a “Removable
Disk” on the host computer. Below is the host computer screen (the computer which
connected with CAT5 8-PORT/16-PORT IP-KVM).