tir, 16.11.2004 kl. 18.48 skrev Kim Lux: > Lets say I've got a rack of headless servers. They do have a video > card, but no monitor. Lets say that one of them is giving trouble - > won't boot, no network, etc. The way it is right now, I have to cart a > monitor over to the machine in question and hook it and a mouse and > keyboard up before I can work on it. > > Is there a way in Linux to use a USB or firewire equipped laptop as the > 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 ? > > I know about X11 and X11 forwarding and that works fine for a lot of > things, but it doesn't work for watching the machine during the boot > process and it won't work on a machine that has a network issue. > > What I am asking for, I guess, is a virtual (software) video card > (device) in the server that takes the X11 display commands that would > have been sent to the video card and redirects them, via the USB cable > to my laptop display. The laptop would have to be running some sort of > USB device software as well. > > Even better would be to be able to use the hard drive/cdrom drive of the > laptop as if they were part of the server as well. > > I know it would be difficult to see all of the boot process, but if the > virtual display driver got loaded early on, you could at least see the > rest of the boot process. > > Does anyone know of something like this ? I've looked and I can't find > anything. > > Thanks > > -- > Kim Lux (Mr.) Diesel Research Inc I think you should rather be looking for one of those LAN-based admin pci cards...