On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 11:07 +0000, Peter Onion wrote:
Does anyone know of any existing tools/programs that allow a single keyboard and mouse to be switched between multiple machines ?
I had a similar problem in my home office, my test environment was taking up most of the room and all of the available desk space.
However I attacked the problem from the other end...Now I use VMware to build virtual networks of whatever I want to test. Doing this I have replaced 4 heat generating noisy machines and hubs, switches network cables etc with one quick machine.
There are tools available to convert physical machines to virtual ones (including one that will do it even when the physical machine is running) So I can if needed pretty much replicate a customers environment to test an upgrade path or something.
The best bit is that I can now have as many machines as I want (Although naturally there is a limit to how many I can have booted at a time...I find that anything more than 3 gets very uncomfortable on even a fast Uni-processor box..and of course you have to have enough memory to provide guesta+guestb+guestc plus some left for the host OS)