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KVM also allows access if the machine isn't booted up, so like mounting remote recovery images, re-installing an OS, and changing BIOS settings and that kind of thing.
I love this. I have a box I've been wanting to move to a family members place because they have fiber and I don't. They're heavy users of the plex server I have on there, so they're happy to host it, but if I ever had issues around anything boot related I'd be down until I could physically get there.
This would also be awesome for troubleshooting some RasPi stuff where I kind of want the DE every now and then but mostly let it run headless.
Yeah it's great for that kind of thing!
Enterprise servers often have it built in, but for everything else this is priced really well.