USB-VGA suggestions?

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 21 Jul 2017 15:19:04 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On 2017-07-21 11:21, J wrote:
> 
> > This might be a bit of a daft question, but these things tend to
> > either have a BMC or similar management controller that provides a
> > remote console to the blades, and if they're IPMI compatible, you can
> > get a full, interactive console from the BMC using ipmitool (in most
> > cases).
> 
> Oh, I'm sure all that stuff's in there -- but, again, chicken and egg: I 
> gotta get VGA going, first, so I can set them up.

Actually not necessarily. Part of the point of the management controller is
not need to do that. The *management controller* is meant to give you a
connection to what amounts to /dev/ttyS0 and maybe some sort of hook into the
BIOS.

> 
> > That seems like it would be an easier solution that introducing
> > dongles with dodgy support, but YMMV.
> 
> Agreed.  But VGA is de facto winning, here.
> 
> > Out of curiosity, what's the make/model of the server?
> 
> Oddly... I don't know.  I *think* it's an Intel -- as in, 
> comes-from-Intel-themselves.  Couldn't find a model, but I'll admit I 
> didn't look too hard.  I've already installed Linux on two of the sleds; 
> the other two will wait for Tuesday (next day I'm in the office).
> 
> -Ken
> 

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