Chapter 6. Menu Options
Drive Redirection
The Drive Redirection is another possibility to use a local 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 then shared over the TCP/IP network connection. Local devices such as
floppy drives, hard discs, CD ROMs and other removable devices like USB sticks can be redirected. It is
possible to enable write support so that the remote machine is allowed to write data to your local disk.
Figure 6-6. Drive Redirection
Please note that Drive Redirection works on a level which is far below the operating system. Actually
this means that neither the local nor the remote operating system is aware that the drive is currently
redirected. This may lead to inconsistent data as soon as one of the operating systems (either from the
local machine or 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 well contain older data. This may confuse the remote host’s
operating system. We advise you to use the Drive Redirection with care, especially when you use write
support.
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