Intel Shows RealVNC Embedded In the BIOS

[B]

Honestly this doesn't sound like news to me -- I thought the facility existed for a while now -- but this article just hit Slashdot.

LWATCDR writes

"At Intel Developer Forum, Intel and RealVNC demoed RealVNC integrated at the BIOS level. Using VNC, one can now power down, power up, reboot, go into the BIOS, and even mount disk images on the network. All of this has been available for a while using IPMI but now it can be done using the open standard VNC. It is available now on Q57 and Q67 motherboards. One can just imagine how useful this could be in a data center, school, or any other system with a large number of computers. Let's hope AMD joins in."

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20 ... n-the-BIOS

[supercoe]

This functionality has existed on many brands of server motherboards for a long time now...
Must be a slow tech news day.

[B]

Bingo.

That, and they seem to be talking more about desktop systems (and even then, some business desktops have also had it for a while).

[averkiev]

Just to let you know guys, by the end of this year SmartCode VNC Manager will support ability to establish remote desktop connection into the BIOS screen.

[sbostedor]

It's simply RealVNC. The VNCScan console (http://www.vncscan.com) and any other VNC management console will also work with them.