User's Manual

Chapter 4: Virtual Media
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Virtual Media in a Linux Environment
KX II 2.4.0 (and later) and LX 2.4.5 (and later) support virtual media in a
Linux environment. Following is important information for Linux
®
users
regarding using virtual media.
Root User Permission Requirement
 Your virtual media connection can be closed if you mount a CD ROM
from a Linux client to a target and then unmount the CD ROM. The
connection also closes when a floppy drive has been mounted and
then a floppy disk is removed. To avoid these issues, you must be a
root user.
 The following drive partition limitations exist across operating
systems:
 Windows and Mac targets are not able to read Linux formatted
partitions
 Windows
®
and Linux
®
cannot read Mac formatted partitions
 Only Windows Fat partitions are supported by Linux
 Windows FAT and NTFS supported by Mac
Mac users must unmount any devices that are already mounted in
order to connect to a target server. Use >diskutil umount
/dev/disk1s1 to unmount the device and diskutil mount /dev/disk1s1
to remount it.
Virtual Media in a Mac Environment
KX II 2.4.0 (and later) and LX 2.4.5 (and later) support virtual media in a
Linux environment. Following is important information for Mac
®
users
regarding using virtual media.
Active System Partitions
 You cannot use virtual media for mount active system partitions for a
Mac client.
Drive Partitions
 The following drive partition limitations exist across operating
systems:
 Windows and Mac targets are not able to read Linux formatted
partitions
 Windows
®
and Linux
®
cannot read Mac formatted partitions
 Only Windows Fat partitions are supported by Linux
 Windows FAT and NTFS supported by Mac