[plett]

Yep. I've just picked up a few second hand HP EliteDesk 800 G2 desktops with the intention of turning them into a homelab for k8s learning. They have AMT and the web power control, VNC based KVM and SoL work well.

There is no BIOS serial redirection, so SoL is no use until the OS starts booting, and grub has a bug[0][1][2] which means it can't find the AMT SoL when booting in EFI mode. But SoL works fine as soon as the kernel starts, and the KVM VNC works fine during BIOS and GRUB if I have an emergency.

One gotcha which would catch someone out who wasn't expecting it - the onboard video disables itself when no monitor is connected, so the AMT KVM just shows a black screen. This can be solved by DisplayPort or VGA "ghost" dongle in the back of the machine to talk EDID and pretend to be a screen.

I'm a big fan of conserver, and intend to use it in this project to spawn amtterm processes to connect to the SoL ports.

0: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42026

1: https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-vPro-Platform/No-AMT-se...

2: https://wiki.networksecuritytoolkit.org/index.php/HowTo_Head...