[Gllug] bit OT : Using laptops as KVM

Juergen Schinker ba1020 at homie.homelinux.net
Mon Nov 12 13:27:19 UTC 2007


> A client of mine has a couple of racks of headless servers (mixture of
> widoze and linux)  and several old laptops: They don't wan't to buy a
> KVM setup, and have been using a couple of
> old screens and keyboards for the occassional ( < 1/week ) bios level
> diagnostic. Is there
> any way to get a laptop LCD to display VGA from the server? My
> personal advice was to
> buy a rackable LCD & keyboard setup but they seem hell-bent on reusing
> hardware..
>

No way unless the laptop has a vga-input which i have never seen

Juergen

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