I recently discovered Synergy:

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware.

Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all. Learn more about how it works.

Perhaps it goes without saying, but Synergy is very cool.  The only catch (which isn’t a catch for most folks) is all systems must support TCP/IP networking. 

The installation is pretty darn easy.  Download and install the latest version on 2+ machines where one of the machine will be considered your “server.” 

On the server, launch Synergy, click Advance Options to set the Screen Name and then select “Share this computer’s keyboard and mouse (server) and then Configure the Screens & Links:

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In the Screens list, add the name of the server and secondary machines.  In the Links list, provide the screen relative positions. If, for example, you have two computers, you need to specific computer A is left of computer B and computer B is right of computer A.  In other words, the latter position is not assumed.

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Once the server is configured, you may Test or Start Synergy.  After Start, the application is minimized to the task tray.

On each of the secondary machines, set the machine names (behind Advanced Options), select Use another computer’s shared keyboard and mouse (client), set the host name and then Test and/or Start.

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Relatively easy setup.  As you can see, there are additional options but the default setup (above) give you much of what you might need. Enjoy.

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