Dear Neil and Linaro validation support team,

Start with a known device type, e.g. KVM.
There is a video of the full process here:
https://www.linaro.org/projects/test-validation/

You've done some of the steps but things will be a lot clearer if you
follow the rest of the steps
This video may also help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5kF3yPjYTk

The tools you use will depend on your particular lab. ser2net is common
and flexible for serial connections, many labs would find it much
better than using sg or screen. tftp transmission typically does not
need to be configured - the tftpd-hpa package is installed by
lava-dispatcher dependencies and can be used as-installed.

Thank you for provided these tutorial video, and I've installed virtual device (e.g. kvm ) in my lava instance and some basic yaml test file in lava_test_shell.

But I still could not install these test into physical devices,
I wonder could it possible to bypass the deploy_image / boot steps, and run test directly.

To test the ser2net connection, I've edited the /etc/ser2net.conf and device.conf

, and connected to the device via lava connect <device> successfully.

And other actions reminded to deploy the image,
so I've tried 'dummy_deploy' in the job definition, but it still could not install 'test' into device.

I'm not sure is there anything that I forgot to notice..

And could you provide some basic device.conf and job definition that could bypass the deploy / boot image steps .

Thank you so much.

Best Regards,

C.H. Wu