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Old Oct 31, 2025 | 10:25 pm
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Originally Posted by gfunkdave
Hmm, those aren't the same thing. Those are for controlling a computer remotely over the internet (for which I use VNC or Remote Desktop anyway...why buy a hardware device for it?). I am trying to share one monitor, one keyboard, one mouse, and one webcam among two laptops, by tapping a button to switch back and forth.
Um, yeah....no, they aren't designed for internet connections at all. They're designed to be (local) networked KVM interfaces. But it sounds like apparently you're looking for a legacy physical KVM device? I would never recommend VNC. Why not just virtualize one OS inside the other?
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