Re: Non-X text mode console

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On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:53:08PM +0200, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> I only have experience with HP's iLO, and that only supports BIOS
> writes as far as I can tell (except the advanced version which does a
> full graphical console). Linux doesn't use BIOS writes, so that battle
> is lost already.
> 
> That's ok though, because it also works as a serial-port-over-telnet,
> and the Linux serial console is reasonably good. I would imagine that
> most of the other remote management cards do the same, am I wrong?

Quite a few see all I/O to the text mode console and relay that.  Works with
Linux and the big server farms don't care too much about graphical management
and buy lots of units.

Some of them these days do graphics properly - a few even talk VNC

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