Sharing iMac G5 monitor with G5 tower

I am going to be buying a used iMac G5 to do email and minor business computing with. I have a G5 tower to do all of my production work.
Is there a way to share the iMac G5's monitor with the tower? Either way I'm going to get the iMac but thought I'd see if this scenario is feasible enough to pursue.
Thanks!
G5 tower Mac OS X (10.4.8) Purchasing used iMac g5

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tqaadm@saptqa01:/usr/sap/TQA/SYS/exe/run 5> sappfpar check pf=/usr/sap/TQA/SYS/profile/TQA_DVEBMGS30_saptqa01
================================================================================
==   Checking profile:     /usr/sap/TQA/SYS/profile/TQA_DVEBMGS30_saptqa01
================================================================================
***WARNING: Unexpected parameter: DIR_EPS =/usr/sap/trans/EPS/----
***WARNING: Unexpected parameter: SAPSECULIB =/usr/sap/TQA/SYS/exe/run/libsapsecu.o
***WARNING: Unexpected parameter: abap/buffersize_part1 =1200000
***WARNING: Unexpected parameter: auth/auth_number_in_userbuffer =5000
***WARNING: Unexpected parameter: dbs/io_buf_size =100000
***WARNING: Unexpected parameter: rsau/local/file =/usr/sap/TQA/DVEBMGS30/log/audit/audit_++++++++
***WARNING: Unexpected parameter: rsau/selector1/class =35
***WARNING: Unexpected parameter: rsau/selector1/severity =2
***WARNING: Unexpected parameter: rsdb/rclu/cachelimt =0
***ERROR: Size of shared memory pool 40 too small
================================================================
SOLUTIONS: (1) Locate shared memory segments outside of pool 40
               with parameters like: ipc/shm_psize_<key> =0
SOLUTION: Increase size of shared memory pool 40
          with parameter: ipc/shm_psize_40 =1472000000
Shared memory disposition overview
================================================================
Shared memory pools
Key:   10 Pool
            Size configured.....:   642000000 ( 612.3 MB)
            Size min. estimated.:   637597428 ( 608.1 MB)
            Advised Size........:   640000000 ( 610.4 MB)
Key:   40 Pool for database buffers
            Size configured.....: 1048000000 ( 999.4 MB)
            Size min. estimated.: 1468229308 (1400.2 MB)
            Advised Size........: 1472000000 (1403.8 MB)
Shared memories inside of pool 10
Key:        1 Size:        2500 (   0.0 MB) System administration
Key:        4 Size:      523648 (   0.5 MB) statistic area
Key:        7 Size:       14838 (   0.0 MB) Update task administration
Key:        8 Size:    67108964 ( 64.0 MB) Paging buffer
Key:        9 Size:   134217828 ( 128.0 MB) Roll buffer
Key:       11 Size:      500000 (   0.5 MB) Factory calender buffer
Key:       12 Size:     6000000 (   5.7 MB) TemSe Char-Code convert Buf.
Key:       13 Size:   200500000 ( 191.2 MB) Alert Area
Key:       16 Size:       22400 (   0.0 MB) Semaphore activity monitoring
Key:       17 Size:     2672386 (   2.5 MB) Roll administration
Key:       30 Size:       37888 (   0.0 MB) Taskhandler runtime admin.
Key:       31 Size:     4806000 (   4.6 MB) Dispatcher request queue
Key:       33 Size:    39936000 ( 38.1 MB) Table buffer, part.buffering
Key:       34 Size:    20480000 ( 19.5 MB) Enqueue table
Key:       51 Size:     3200000 (   3.1 MB) Extended memory admin.
Key:       52 Size:       40000 (   0.0 MB) Message Server buffer
Key:       54 Size:    20488192 ( 19.5 MB) Export/Import buffer
Key:       55 Size:        8192 (   0.0 MB) Spool local printer+joblist
Key:       57 Size:     1048576 (   1.0 MB) Profilparameter in shared mem
Key:       58 Size:        4096 (   0.0 MB) Enqueue ID for reset
Key:       62 Size:    85983232 ( 82.0 MB) Memory pipes
Shared memories inside of pool 40
Key:        2 Size:    31168040 ( 29.7 MB) Disp. administration tables
Key:        3 Size:   114048000 ( 108.8 MB) Disp. communication areas
Key:        6 Size: 1064960000 (1015.6 MB) ABAP program buffer
Key:       14 Size:    28600000 ( 27.3 MB) Presentation buffer
Key:       19 Size:    90000000 ( 85.8 MB) Table-buffer
Key:       42 Size:    13920992 ( 13.3 MB) DB TTAB buffer
Key:       43 Size:    43422392 ( 41.4 MB) DB FTAB buffer
Key:       44 Size:     8606392 (   8.2 MB) DB IREC buffer
Key:       45 Size:     6558392 (   6.3 MB) DB short nametab buffer
Key:       46 Size:       20480 (   0.0 MB) DB sync table
Key:       47 Size:    13313024 ( 12.7 MB) DB CUA buffer
Key:       48 Size:      300000 (   0.3 MB) Number range buffer
Key:       49 Size:     3309932 (   3.2 MB) Spool admin (SpoolWP+DiaWP)
Shared memories outside of pools
Key:       18 Size:     1792100 (   1.7 MB) Paging adminitration
Key:       41 Size:    25010000 ( 23.9 MB) DB statistics buffer
Key:       63 Size:      409600 (   0.4 MB) ICMAN shared memory
Key:       64 Size:     4202496 (   4.0 MB) Online Text Repository Buf.
Key:       65 Size:     4202496 (   4.0 MB) Export/Import Shared Memory
Key:     1002 Size:      400000 (   0.4 MB) Performance monitoring V01.0
Key: 58900130 Size:        4096 (   0.0 MB) SCSA area
Nr of operating system shared memory segments: 9
Shared memory resource requirements estimated
================================================================
Nr of shared memory descriptors required for
Extended Memory Management (unnamed mapped file).: 64
Total Nr of shared segments required.....:         73
System-imposed number of shared memories.:       1000
Shared memory segment size required min..: 1472000000 (1403.8 MB)
System-imposed maximum segment size......: 35184372088832 (33554432.0 MB)
Swap space requirements estimated
================================================
Shared memory....................: 2050.4 MB
..in pool 10 608.1 MB,   99% used
..in pool 40 999.4 MB, 140% used !!
..not in pool:   34.4 MB
Processes........................: 716.8 MB
Extended Memory .................: 8192.0 MB
Total, minimum requirement.......: 10959.2 MB
Process local heaps, worst case..: 1907.3 MB
Total, worst case requirement....: 12866.5 MB
Errors detected..................:    1
Warnings detected................:    9
After checking the profile parameter I tried to run sapccm4x in /run directory but got the below error and I'm not able tomove further.
Pls have a look at these two and let me know what could I do to proceed further.
tqaadm@saptqa01:/usr/sap/TQA/SYS/exe/run 5> sapccm4x -R pf=/usr/sap/TQA/SYS/profile/TQA_DVEBMGS30_saptqa01
INFO: CCMS agent sapccm4x working directory is /usr/sap/TQA/DVEBMGS30/log/sapccm4x
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INFO: found ini file /usr/sap/TQA/DVEBMGS30/log/sapccm4x/sapccmsr.ini.
INFO:
      CCMS version 20040229, 64 bit, multithreaded, Non-Unicode
      compiled at   Jun 28 2010
      systemid      324 (IBM RS/6000 with AIX)
      relno         6400
      patch text    patch collection 2010/1, OSS note 1304480
      patchno       335
INFO Runtime:
      running on    saptqa01 AIX 3 5 00069A8FD600
      running with profile   /usr/sap/TQA/SYS/profile/TQA_DVEBMGS30_saptqa01
INFO profile parameters:
      alert/MONI_SEGM_SIZE = 200000000
      alert/TRACE          = 1
      SAPSYSTEM            = 30
      SAPSYSTEMNAME        = TQA
      SAPLOCALHOST         = saptqa01
      DIR_CCMS             = /usr/sap/ccms
      DIR_LOGGING          = /usr/sap/TQA/DVEBMGS30/log
      DIR_PERF             = /usr/sap/tmp
INFO:
      pid           4165682
INFO: Attached to Shared Memory Key 13 (size 200141728) in pool 10
INFO: Connected to Monitoring Segment [CCMS Monitoring Segment for application server saptqa01_TQA_30, created with version CCMS version 20040229, 64 bit single threaded, compiled at Oct 3 2008, kernel 6400_20020600_254, platform 324 (IBM RS/6000 with AIX)]
        segment status     ENABLED
        segment started at Tue Sep 14 09:35:56 2010
        segment version    20040229
ERROR: Shared Memory misconfiguration ==> can not monitor SAP application server saptqa01_TQA_30
       Dispatcher Admin Shared Memory (Key 01) and CCMS Shared Memory (Key 13) both in pool 10.
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EXITING with code 1

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