Virtual Media In A Linux Environment; Virtual Media In A Mac Environment - Raritan dominion kx III Administrator's Manual

Chapter 5: Virtual Media

Virtual Media in a Linux Environment

Virtual Media in a Mac Environment

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Active System Partitions
You cannot mount active system partitions from a Linux client.
Linux Ext3/4 drive partitions need to be unmounted via umount
/dev/<device label> prior to a making a virtual media connection.
Drive Partitions
The following drive partition limitations exist across operating systems:
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Windows and Mac targets are not able to read Linux formatted
partitions
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Windows and Linux cannot read Mac formatted partitions
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Only Windows Fat partitions are supported by Linux
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.
To avoid these issues, you must be a root user.
Active System Partition
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 cannot read Mac formatted partitions
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Windows FAT and NTFS are supported by Mac
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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.