[NTLUG:Discuss] KVM for Linux

[Tom Adelstein]

On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 15:05 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 02:20:34PM -0600, Fred James wrote:
> > All
> > I have a situation that could be an excellent place to use a small KVM 
> > switch, but I am not able (as yet) to determine if such would work in a 
> > purely Linux environment.  Does anyone have any experience or advise 
> > they could share?  Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to 
> > offer.

Patrick - I forgot to mention that some USB style KVM's have caused some
problems. Also, with pure PS2 switches, I have used USB keyboards and
some different mouse types. Sometimes the USB to PS2 converters have not
worked sufficiently. Something for which one might want to watch.





> 
> Almost any KVM switch that doesn't require a (windows) software driver to 
> be loaded should be able to work fine in a Linux environment.  I've used 
> many such KVM switches in Linux environments without any real problems.
> 
> Well, I did have *one* problem:  one Belkin switch I had used the
> "Scroll Lock" key as the trigger to switch between ports on the KVM
> switch.  This was okay, except that pressing Scroll Lock could also 
> temporarily suspend console messages, and when more than a buffer's worth of
> console messages (probably 4K chars) were generated with scroll lock
> activated, the result was a kernel panic.  The easy solution for this
> KVM switch was to change the console keymaps to ignore Scroll Lock.  :-)
> 
> However, this was 5-6 years ago, and newer KVM switches likely don't
> have this problem.
> 
> Pm
> 
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