Remove the Flash Drive - Generic Procedure

Before you begin

When you are ready to remove the USB Flash drive, select Un-Mount from the Maintenance page.

About this task

Follow these steps to remove the flash drive.

Note

The Virtual Appliance can be in service when the USB flash drive is assigned to it. Within a few seconds of the USB flash drive being assigned to it, the virtual appliance will detect the flash drive and mount it for use.

Procedure

Shut down the virtual machine.
Remove the USB device related configuration that was added to the virtual machine.
For example:
```
-device 'nec-usb-xhci,id=xhci,bus=pci.1,addr=0x1b'
-device 'usb-host,bus=xhci.0,vendorid=0x125f,productid=0xc08a,id=usb0'
```
Start the virtual machine.
The USB flash drive can be removed from the host.