coordination #60518
Updated by ggardet_arm about 4 years ago
The goal of this ticket is to track progress of the support of real systems without IPMI or KVM-IP, in openQA/os-autoinst, such as Raspberry Pi boards and other ARM boards. We need to: 1. <s>Power Power ON/OFF the board (already supported by the `generalhw` backend, we just need hardware and scripts)</s> Done scripts) 2. <s>Flash Flash the board (use another board with USB mass storage gadget to emulate a USB disk or use a USB switch to share a USB stick across hosts)</s> Done disk?) 3. <s>Use Use SSH consoles instead of VNC</s> Done VNC 4. <s>Use Use real serial connection (optional, but useful before ssh is available)</s> Done available) The `generalhw` backend is designed for real systems connected to kvm-ip (keyboard, video, mouse over IP) systems with VNC support. So, we could reuse this backend and make the VNC part optional and switch to SSH and serial consoles.