Chapter 4: Virtual Media70Virtual Media in a Linux EnvironmentActive System PartitionsYou cannot mount active system partitions from a Linux client.Linux Ext3/4 drive partitions need to be unmounted via umount/dev/ prior to a making a virtual media connection.Drive PartitionsThe following drive partition limitations exist across operating systems: Windows® and Mac targets are not able to read Linux formattedpartitions Windows and Linux cannot read Mac formatted partitions Only Windows Fat partitions are supported by LinuxRoot User Permission RequirementYour virtual media connection can be closed if you mount a CD ROMfrom a Linux client to a target and then unmount the CD ROM.To avoid these issues, you must be a root user.Virtual Media in a Mac EnvironmentActive System PartitionYou cannot use virtual media to mount active system partitions for a Macclient.Drive PartitionsThe following drive partition limitations exist across operating systems: Windows® and Mac targets are not able to read Linux formattedpartitions Windows cannot read Mac formatted partitions Windows FAT and NTFS are supported by Mac Mac users must unmount any devices that are already mounted inorder to connect to a target server. Use >diskutil umount/dev/disk1s1 to unmount the device and diskutil mount /dev/disk1s1to remount it.
