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Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis

From "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis
Date 2015-09-18 20:17 +0100
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"rickman" <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On 9/18/2015 2:42 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:

...

>> Put that way, it sounds very like an RPi with USB keyboard+mouse + 
>> HDMI
>> monitor plus an Ethernet hub/switch connecting all the RPIs together.
>>
>> Use the one with keyboard etc to login to the other headless RPis.
>
> Exactly.  Unless there is some advantage to having a device on the pi 
> that actually plugs into the HDMI/USB connectors to emulate the 
> physical devices.

Sure. Remote desktop or VNC etc can only work on a running OS and, what 
is more, a running OS which has suitable apps. For bare-metal 
programming, OS development and to see what's happening in the boot 
process you need access to the real inputs and outputs.

James

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Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 18:00 +0100
  Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis Dave Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2015-09-06 21:46 +0100
    Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 17:42 +0100
  Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2015-09-07 00:36 +0000
  Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis davehigton14@gmail.com - 2015-09-07 03:54 -0700
  Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2015-09-08 00:54 +1000
  Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis Andrew Smallshaw <andrews@sdf.lonestar.org> - 2015-09-13 12:45 +0000
    Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2015-09-13 19:22 +0100
    Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis Jonathan Lane <tidux@faeroes.freeshell.org> - 2015-09-27 15:28 +0000
  Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-09-13 13:48 +0000
    Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis David James <david@tcs01.demon.co.uk> - 2015-09-13 14:22 +0000
      Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-09-13 17:42 +0000
        Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis David James <david@tcs01.demon.co.uk> - 2015-09-16 00:01 +0000
  Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis DisneyWizard the Fantasmic! <wiz@FANTASMIC!disneywizard.com> - 2015-09-17 08:38 -0700
    Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 08:40 -0400
      Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> - 2015-09-18 14:26 +0100
      Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-09-18 18:42 +0000
        Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 15:09 -0400
          Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 20:17 +0100
            Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis Rob <nomail@example.com> - 2015-09-18 21:35 +0000
              Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 23:19 +0100
                Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis Rob <nomail@example.com> - 2015-09-19 06:48 +0000
                Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 11:15 +0100
                Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2015-09-19 08:13 +0100
                Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 11:19 +0100
            Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 11:31 -0400
            Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2015-09-19 19:39 +0100
              Re: Something like a KVM switch for multiple Raspberry Pis colonel_hack@yahoo.com - 2015-09-20 22:06 -0700

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