Controlling XPe from a laptop

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Our embedded device will have no mouse or keyboard in normal operation - it will have a touchscreen.

Our field engineers will need a keyboard and mouse for their work, which made me wonder:

Field engineers always carry a laptop, but not normally a separate keyboard and mouse. Wouldn't it be nice if there was some way to control XPe from the keyboard and mouse on the laptop (two fewer things for engineers to carry around). Clearly special software and a special XPe driver would be required; the laptop would be connected by a single USB port (I suppose this would be easier to implement with two USB connections).

Has anyone done anything like this?

Michael Bate
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