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11.2 Virtual
Media
The IP-KVM provides a powerful capability called Virtual Media (or
Virtual Disk). Using the USB port, the IP-KVM can present either a local
floppy disk image or a redirected remote CD/DVD-ROM image to the
target computer. This can allow system recovery in conditions as bad as
having local disks down and no primary network connection. With
Floppy Disk Image, the user can upload an image to the IP-KVM’s
memory, which then emulates a locally attached floppy drive. With
CD/DVD-ROM Image, a Windows or other SAMBA share can emulate a
locally attached CD/DVD-ROM, for instance to update software.
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 disc.
Before go ahead with this setup, both remote user computer and local
computer (the one connected with the 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 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 IPKVM).
