Hello guys,
Let's start slow, because what I want is a bit odd.
I have 1 box with FreeBSD-7.2-stable. Hardware is a 478 intel 2.6 Ghz with 1 GB DDR1. runs fine, no problems.
There is the other box... win xp sp3, amd sempron 2800+ socket 754. again, works fine, no problems (only features
)
I do not have fizical access to the computers (3 countrys away) and I have no money right now to invest in a KVM.
What I want
I want to connect to the BSD box KVM-like. Of course that is not posible since I have no KVM.
So I was thinking if maybe it would be possible to connect somehow the BSD box to the Windows box and have some sort of application KVM-like. Basicly I would like to have a VNC-like window with the output of the video card of the BSD box and the win keyboard to act like the local-connected BSD box keyboard
INFO: I connect to the win box through remote desktop.
Now... everyone that I have asked told me that they have absolutly no ideea about this, but there was this guy (a colleague) that told me that (he thinks that) it might be posible with a COM cable connected to the 2 pc's.
so I started google-ing in that direction and stumbled upon the handbook wich explains a bit hot to connect to a COM tty (but no interoperability).
Question is like this:
1) if (somehow) I manage to have a tty in windows (similar to ssh maybe? i have no clue here) will that tty be available if the system goes down to single user mode?
2) what if i need BIOS access ?
3) is this (what i want) possible ? - thinking astronomic, nothing is impossible, but coming back to Earth, can it be done (with software)?
4) if not with software, what solution do I have ? what prices....etc
I know... solution = KVM. But a remote IP KVM costs quite a bunch (or maybe I just had bad luck to find the expensive ones. expensive=~8-900 Euros)
any idea is welcomed.
Thx
Let's start slow, because what I want is a bit odd.
I have 1 box with FreeBSD-7.2-stable. Hardware is a 478 intel 2.6 Ghz with 1 GB DDR1. runs fine, no problems.
There is the other box... win xp sp3, amd sempron 2800+ socket 754. again, works fine, no problems (only features

I do not have fizical access to the computers (3 countrys away) and I have no money right now to invest in a KVM.
What I want
I want to connect to the BSD box KVM-like. Of course that is not posible since I have no KVM.
So I was thinking if maybe it would be possible to connect somehow the BSD box to the Windows box and have some sort of application KVM-like. Basicly I would like to have a VNC-like window with the output of the video card of the BSD box and the win keyboard to act like the local-connected BSD box keyboard
INFO: I connect to the win box through remote desktop.
Now... everyone that I have asked told me that they have absolutly no ideea about this, but there was this guy (a colleague) that told me that (he thinks that) it might be posible with a COM cable connected to the 2 pc's.
so I started google-ing in that direction and stumbled upon the handbook wich explains a bit hot to connect to a COM tty (but no interoperability).
Question is like this:
1) if (somehow) I manage to have a tty in windows (similar to ssh maybe? i have no clue here) will that tty be available if the system goes down to single user mode?
2) what if i need BIOS access ?
3) is this (what i want) possible ? - thinking astronomic, nothing is impossible, but coming back to Earth, can it be done (with software)?
4) if not with software, what solution do I have ? what prices....etc
I know... solution = KVM. But a remote IP KVM costs quite a bunch (or maybe I just had bad luck to find the expensive ones. expensive=~8-900 Euros)
any idea is welcomed.
Thx