Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: ray carter Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi Subject: Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis Date: 7 Sep 2015 00:36:03 GMT Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 9dTvksA8/U8eCjuqK+rPRQejHr4a4lU/1A7kMQdaW3+lU/8jYa Cancel-Lock: sha1:uMCMaNabLPe+E5aKw+AErV3Rwac= User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.raspberry-pi:9554 On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 18:00:50 +0100, James Harris wrote: > I fancy setting up a few Raspberry Pis with different configurations. > Their small size would make them ideal for having many of them in a > reasonably small space and I would need them all to be viewable on a > single monitor (by switching). > > One monitor, keyboard and mouse would probably do for them all. Anyone > aware of a good-value KVM solution for this? An 8-way would be enough. > Some sort of power distribution would be a bonus. Second hand would be > OK. Cheap components would be a double bonus. > > I am not thinking of compute modules as the individual Pis could me > moved later. > > Any of you guys already done this? > > James If they are all networked, the simple solution would be to set up one full machine and use ssh -X to login to the others remotely from that machine. You could also set them up with xdmcp or use vnc (that would be my last choice).