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General Description

The "Host Device Check" utility is used to review system resources that can be mapped to CHARON.

Open the CHARON Virtual Machines Manager, switch to the "Host Information & Utilities" tab and press the "Device Check Tool" button:

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Reviewing available physical disks

By default the "Host Device Check" utility reports the available physical disks:

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Please note that the unusable devices and the devices containing Windows system (see corresponding colors above) must not be mapped to CHARON!

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Reviewing all the available host resources

Select "All drives" in the "Device class" drop-down list:

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The "Host Device Check" utility will display all the host resources:

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It is also possible to choose all the other categories to narrow the possible mapping options list.

Note the "Use with CHARON" column contains the actual configuration options for each available device to be inserted, if needed, in the CHARON configuration file (see below).

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Collecting the configuration strings

To collect the actual configuration strings to be used in the CHARON configuration file, select the target device and press the "Copy path to clipboard" button:

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The selected configuration string will be copied to the clipboard, it can then be pasted to the CHARON configuration file (using the "CTRL-V" keys combination for example).

The buttons "Open" and "Save As..." help to open up the displayed options in form of text file and save this text file under some given name.

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