•
A CD/DVD drive, disk image file (such as an ISO or a mass storage device) is mapped as a
virtual CD drive.
•
A floppy drive, USB memory device, a floppy image file or other media type is mapped as a
virtual mass storage device.
4.11.1 Requirements
The target device must be connected to the KVM switch that supports virtual media with an IQ module
that supports virtual media.
The target device must be intrinsically able to use the types of USB2-compatible media that you virtually
map. If the target device does not support a portable USB memory device, you cannot map that on the
client machine as a virtual media drive on the target device.
The user (or user group to which the user belongs) must have permission to establish virtual media
sessions and/or reserved virtual media sessions to the target device.
Only one virtual media session may be active to a target device at one time.
NOTE: All steps in this section can be done by accessing the Virtual Media tab from the KVM Video
Viewer menu.
To launch a virtual media session:
Select
Virtual Media
-
Activate
.
To map a virtual media drive:
1.
Launch a virtual media session
.
2. Map a physical drive as a virtual media drive:
a. In the Virtual Media menu, select the drive you wish to map. The Mapping Dialog box will
appear that allows you to select a disk image file or a physical device to map.
b. If you wish to limit the mapped drive to read-only access, click the Read Only checkbox in
the Mapping Dialog box. If the virtual media session settings were previously configured
so that all mapped drives must be read only, this checkbox will already be enabled and
cannot be changed.
You might wish to enable the Read Only checkbox if the session settings enabled read
and write access, but you wished to limit a particular drive’s access to read only.
3. Add and map an ISO or floppy image as a virtual media drive. In the Mapping dialog box, from
the drop-down menu, select the desired image file and click
Map Device
.
NOTE: Disk image files ending in either .iso or .img will display.
-or-
In the Mapping dialog box, from the drop-down menu, select the drive with the image file and
click browse. Browse to the location of the file and click
Open
.
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