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11.2.1 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 50: 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.
