drac 5 virtual media plugin

John Hodrien johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk
Thu May 3 03:29:35 CDT 2007


On Thu, 3 May 2007, Mark Watts wrote:

>
>> Is there any way to manually install the drac 5 virtual media plugin?
>
> I have another question about the virtual media capability.
> I had it demonstrated by way of loading the RHEL4 CD1 ISO into the CD virtual
> media drive and then seeing the system boot from this.
>
> Does the CD image get loaded across the network to the DRAC or does the plugin
> provide some kind of random-access I/O from the guest system?

With DRAC4, the CD was simply made available across the network from the
guest.  I can't imagine they've changed it.

jh

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