Vertiv Avocent IPUHD 4K IP KVM Device Installer/User Manual page 15

Virtual keyboard
When the virtual keyboard is enabled, the keyboard is displayed on the client's workstation and can be positioned anywhere
inside the window. The up and down directional arrows in the top right corner of the virtual keyboard are used to increase or
decrease the size of the keyboard, respectively.
Virtual media
Use the virtual media feature on the client workstation to map an .iso or .img file on the client machine as a virtual drive on a
target device. You can also use the client workstation to add and map an .iso or .img file as a virtual drive on the target device.
Requirements
The virtual media feature has the following requirements:
• The target device must be connected to a KVM switch that supports virtual media with an IQ module that
supports virtual media.
• The target device must be 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 it on a 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 medial sessions to the target device.
• Only one virtual media session can be active on a target device at one time.
To map a virtual media drive:
NOTE: To map a virtual media drive, you must launch a video viewer session. See
page 8.
1. In the Virtual Media section of the client navigational toolbar, click Connect.
2. After the virtual media session is activated, use the Virtual Media drop-down menu to select the type of file to
map. Select Map ISO image to map an .iso file or select either Map Removable Disk or Map Floppy Disk to map an
.img file.
3. Select a file from the Open dialog box with an .iso or .img file extension, depending on your selection in step 2,
then click Open.
4. If you wish to limit the mapped drive to read-only access, click the Read Only check-box in the Virtual Disk
Management dialog box.
NOTE: If the virtual media session settings were previously configured so that all mapped drives must be read only,
the Read Only check-box will already be enabled and cannot be changed. You might wish to enable the check-box if
the session settings enabled read and write access, but you wish to limit a particular drive's access to read only.
5. Click Map Drive, then click Close.
NOTE: After a physical drive or image is mapped, it can be used on the target device.
To unmap a virtual media drive:
1. From the Virtual Media menu, click the mapped drive to unmap that drive.
-or-
Click Deactivate to unmap all the drives.
2. At the prompt, click Yes to unmap the drive.
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