Dual Screen KVM ?

[FatRakoon]

Just wondering as I think I could certainly do with this...

I know that there are KVMs out there that offer dual screen, thats NOT what I am after...

What I am more after, is one that gives me a single screen per PC, but that I have 2 screens, for when I am swapping between 2 systems...

For example...

My current setup is :-

PC1 = WINDOWS
PC2 = LINUX
PC3 = WORKING
PC4 = SERVER

Now, obviously I select whichever by simply pressing the button on my KVM.

PC3 is the one that I am currently playing about with, or "Working on".
I might be installing Windows, or Linuxor whatever onto it, and when its got a bit of work to do and I ahv a bit of a wait, I then select PC1 and do a bit of UCHOOB or play a game or whatever, and occasionally I have to flick back to see where I am at.

This sometimes causes an issue where my Mouse or Keyboard sometimes gets lost or just go funky.

But it would be very handy to use my little VGA screen so that I can keep an eye on the working machine while its doing its stuff, and then only select it when I see that its done.

Similarly, it would be nice to be working on the WORKING PC and have PC1 display its blab on the little screen, while I am working.

Am I making sence here? I know what I am trying to say, but whether Im making sense is another story!

 

[lude1962]

I think you'll need 2 kvm's and 4 '
Monitor VGA SVGA Y Dual Splitter Cable Lead Adaptor Converter'

kvm 1 for active tasks, kvm 2 for monitoring on little screen

 

[FatRakoon]

I got a few various KVMS. My main one is DVI but thankfully, it works perfectly with HDMI to DVI adapters, so its HDMI-DVI adapters from PCs to the KVM and then DVI-HDMI adapter to the screen and it also allows me to use Analog OR Digital DVI from eahc PC, AND, it also works with the AUDIO too... I find that to be unecessary for me, but I have used it.

The other KVMs are VGA, and the only one that is VGA that allows me to use high res screens, seems to hate working with my main KVM.

For now, what I have done, is simply connect my little screen to the working PC VGA port, and the KVM to the HDMI.
When I boot it up and the KVM is set tp my main PC, that boots with the little screen on, and when the KVM is set to the WORKING, it boots on the HDMI. It does both actually, but the little screen obviously goes off when its display is too high. It does not work like this on all machines, but its doing it on both my Hackintosh and my Linux PC and it works kind of ok like that... I can see what I am doing, but its not quite what I want.

I might get a better 2 machine KVM tat does HDMI/DVI like my 4-PC one and see how that does then, with the Y-Splitter AFTER KVM 1 yes?

Ok, cheers for that.