Specifications

KVM over IP Module
5.2 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).
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