Laptop as USB display device for server rack monitoring ?

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Tue Nov 16 22:51:07 UTC 2004


On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:48:07AM -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> monitor/keyboard/mouse for the servers on the rack ?  Could one have a
> USB port on the front of each server and direct some sort of video
> output from it to the laptop and use the laptop display/keyboard/mouse
> as the input to the server ?

Linux supports serial console for the built in serial ports. We support
VNC sessions so you could set up a 10.0.0* USB network with USB pc 2 pc
cables for that.

Seems this question isn't "test" related however




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