On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 09:13 +0100, cl@isbd.net wrote:
I must say that I've never had a lot of success with KVM switches from the mouse point of view.
With the exception of some very expensive enterprise grade rack switches I would say that I haven't had a lot of success with KVM switches period.
What I would like (and may even build one day) is a laptop without the computer bit, i.e a Laptop format device that is in fact a Keyboard/Mouse/VGA screen, self contained and battery powered.
For the odd occasion that you actually need a physical head on a server that would be ideal and would totally negate the need for KVM switches in the server room (already the case if you are using a server platform that supports proper remote management at the hardware level).
Of course you need to sort the hot-plug ability, which is sometimes a bit of a challenge with the x86 bios, I have noticed that although x86 hardware is fine with PS/2 keyboards being changed it doesn't always like having a keyboard plugged in if one was not present at boot. On windows the mouse is also a bit of a pain (USB mice are better in this respect)
For any other purpose (other than 3D) there are now plenty of remote desktop choices for almost every platform.