User guide

Chapter 4: Virtual Media
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Virtual Media in a Mac Environment
Following is important information for Mac
®
users regarding using virtual
media.
Active System Partitions
 You cannot use virtual media to 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
 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.
Conditions when Read/Write is Not Available
Virtual media Read/Write is not available in the following situations:
 For Linux
®
and Mac
®
clients
 For all hard drives
 When the drive is write-protected
 When the user does not have Read/Write permission:
 Port Permission Access is set to None or View
 Port Permission VM Access is set to Read-Only or Deny
Using Virtual Media
See Prerequisites for Using Virtual Media (on page 74) before you
begin using virtual media.
To use virtual media:
1. If you plan to access file server ISO images, identify those file
servers and images through the Remote Console File Server Setup
page.