Virtual Media In A Mac Environment; Conditions When Read/Write Is Not Available; Using Virtual Media - Raritan Dominion KX II-101-V2 User Manual

Chapter 4: Virtual Media

Using Virtual Media

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Virtual Media in a Mac Environment

Following is important information for Mac
media.
Active System Partitions
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You cannot use virtual media to mount active system partitions for a
Mac client.
Drive Partitions
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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
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Only Windows Fat partitions are supported by Linux
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Windows FAT and NTFS 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.

Conditions when Read/Write is Not Available

Virtual media Read/Write is not available in the following situations:
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For Linux and Mac
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For all hard drives
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When the drive is write-protected
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When the user does not have Read/Write permission:
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Port Permission Access is set to None or View
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Port Permission VM Access is set to Read-Only or Deny
See Prerequisites for Using Virtual Media
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.
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users regarding using virtual
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cannot read Mac formatted partitions
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clients
(on page 74) before you