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    From Joe Makowiec@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 8 16:15:35 2025
    I admin three Linux boxes, all of which are on the most recent version of Fedora. At any given time, two are remote and one is local. Fedora did a version update in mid-April, which I did on all three servers via DNF,
    using Fedora's instructions. Normally, this is a trouble-free procedure.

    This time, two of the servers came up just fine. However, the third one -
    and you guessed it, it was one of the remotes - didn't. It was five days
    until I had access to it. When I got to it, it was running, but needed a
    Ctrl^D to put it into the proper mind to come up and make itself
    available. Since then, it has rebooted just fine.

    Since it was relatively simple to get it working again, I figure that if
    I had KVM access to it, I could have brought it up immediately. So I
    started searching the web. Unfortunately, what I came up with ranged from
    about US$15 to several thousands of dollars. I assume that the higher end
    ones are for server farms which run hundreds of servers in a room.
    However, it looked like the lower-end solutions were for use on a couple
    of boxes within the same facility.

    What I need is something which will allow KVM connection from anywhere
    via the internet for just one (or a few) machine. Any suggestions?

    Also posted to grc.techtalk

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Joe Makowiec on Thu May 8 17:18:57 2025
    Joe Makowiec wrote:

    What I need is something which will allow KVM connection from anywhere
    via the internet for just one (or a few) machine. Any suggestions?

    Quite a few rPi-based or similar remote KVMs have appeared in the last
    year or so, have a look at Jeff Geerling's youtube channel ...

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Joe Makowiec on Thu May 8 20:11:58 2025
    On Thu, 8 May 2025 16:15:35 -0000 (UTC), Joe Makowiec wrote:


    What I need is something which will allow KVM connection from anywhere
    via the internet for just one (or a few) machine. Any suggestions?

    https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/kvm-over-ip-raspberry-pi

    https://pikvm.org/products/

    The second link has complete packaged units but they're pricey. There are
    a couple of DIY plans:

    https://pikvm.org/diy/#pikvm-v1

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  • From Marc Haber@21:1/5 to Joe Makowiec on Fri May 9 07:14:13 2025
    Joe Makowiec <makowiec@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    What I need is something which will allow KVM connection from anywhere
    via the internet for just one (or a few) machine. Any suggestions?

    Are you sure that you need KVM access? Maybe a serial console is
    enough? Even without a server mainboard, you can control the entire
    process starting with grub, even if the Firmware doesn't support
    serial itself.

    Greetings
    Marc
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