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If you have an Intel CPU, there is a good chance you have a KVM built-in (whether you wanted one or not): Intel AMT. Its reputation was tarnished by Intel's dis
by atdt 21d ago
If you have an Intel CPU, there is a good chance you have a KVM built-in (whether you wanted one or not): Intel AMT. Its reputation was tarnished by Intel's dissimulation and opacity about the technology, and a streak of critical vulnerabilities disclosed in late 2017. I chose to take my chances with it anyway for my homelab server. It is secured with a password, mutual TLS (client has to provide a cert), and restricted to the LAN via a physical firewall. It gives me serial console, KVM, and power control.
I like it. It works pretty well. I don't see a reason to trust it any less than closed-hardware, closed-source solutions. I would trust a fully-open-source PIKVM more, however.
The tooling and documentation for setting up Intel AMT via open-source tools is meagre, so I had to roll my own. I only need a small nudge to package it for others to re-use, so reply to this post if you are interested.
- Silly3850 21d agoI'm interested, even if you don't have time to package it nicely, I would still appreciate sharing the src
- Scramblejams 21d agoI'm interested.
- yzmtf2008 21d agoThis would require a vPro CPU and compatible motherboard, right?
- magarnicle 20d agoIt needs an Intel ethernet card too.
- hypercube33 20d agoAMD Pro CPUs generally come with their own version of this - Realtek BCM
- anjel 21d ago.
- ahepp 20d ago> I don't see a reason to trust it any less than closed-hardware, closed-source solutions. I would trust a fully-open-source PIKVM more, however. Isn't jetKVM software open source? I thought it had a public buildroot fork? Been a while since I checked, maybe something has changed.
- edualm 20d agoI’m interested too!
- deleted 20d ago[deleted]
- atdt 20d agoUploaded here: https://github.com/atdt/amt-tools https://github.com/atdt/amt-tools
- wallst07 20d agoI've had a number of thinkpads and nucs with vpro/amt. All the things you say are technically correct, in practice the software and feature set are horribly documented. I've spent numerous hours trying to get it to work reliably only to find out something is too old or not supported or just disabled. The phsyical kvms just work and worth the $.