had a kvm switch once and it sucked even for just ps2. now i find it rare for the need to access the real keyboard/mouse of a machine. expecialy in the case of plan9 where you can use drawterm or vnc. in case you want to use 2 monitors and only switch for keyboard/mouse input you can use the synergy client [1] for plan9. (expecting you are using window/unix on the other machine) [1] /n/sources/contrib/cinap_lenrek/synergy.tgz -- cinap