Very true. I searched long and hard to find Intel's vPro capable motherboards which support KVM. Lots of whitepapers for managers on the Intel site. Not much in

Very true. I searched long and hard to find Intel's vPro capable motherboards which support KVM. Lots of whitepapers for managers on the Intel site. Not much in the way of hard information about which motherboards work. My favorite was their suggestion that you download a tool and scan your network to see which ones work. Because that is easier than maintaining a list, I suppose. I can just buy one of each and work it out. That it took so long to figure out which motherboards even supported vPro KVM should have been a clue. I think they must be embarrassed by the thing and and don't want anyone to actually see it. For my efforts, I have VNC access to my motherboard that hangs when I try to connect to it from OS X, works a little bit, sometimes, for a while from Linux, then hangs until a power cycle. For extra delight, the ethernet chipset that supports this useless heap has long standing bugs with the Linux kernel with no work around. It works fine, unless you want to push more than a few megabits per second through it. Then it hangs, disconnects, and reconnects. Oh, it also took me two days to figure out how to even turn on the KVM without a Windows machine. Their tool won't run on Wine because its written in the new "portable" way, and for some arcane reason you can turn on lots of things from the BIOS, but not the KVM, you have to come in from an external machine with some misguided "one protocol to manage them all" system and an arcane text key.