System and method supporting remote data processing system management

A remotely manageable data processing system includes a video spoof subsystem that simulates a video adapter. The data processing system also includes a processing core in communication with the video spoof subsystem. The processing core transmits video data to the video spoof subsystem, and the video spoof subsystem translates the video data into video output. In addition, the data processing system includes a packet engine that receives the video output from the video spoof subsystem, generates network packets based on the video output, and transmits the network packets to a remote workstation. The data processing system thus uses spoofing to support remote video. In an example embodiment, the video data is digital video data, the data processing system includes no video adapter, and the data processing system does not convert the digital video data to analog.