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[Isaac True <2109713@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, just realised this should go upstream to Debian. Filed a bug
report there: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1104459

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #1104459
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1104459

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Title:
  autopkgtest-virt-qemu: cannot pass "-append" in "--qemu-options"

Status in autopkgtest package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or
  System -> About Ubuntu

  Description:    Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
  Release:        22.04

  2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy
  pkgname' or by checking in Software Center

  5.38ubuntu1~22.04.1

  3) What you expected to happen

  I want to be able to pass additional kernel command line arguments to
  QEMU using the "-append" argument (the image is being booted with
  "-kernel" and "-initrd"), using the "--qemu-option" argument.

  E.g:

  autopkgtest bash -- qemu --qemu-options "-append 'root=/dev/vda
  init=/sbin/init plus additional parameters' -kernel /boot/vmlinuz
  -initrd /boot/initrd.img" --boot none image.img

  This should result in the command line option "-append 'root=/dev/vda
  init=/sbin/init plus additional parameters'" being added to QEMU.

  4) What happened instead

  The value passed to "--qemu-option" is cut up into individual
  arguments using the Python function split()
  ("qemu_options=args.qemu_options.split()" in autopkgtest-virt-qemu).
  This causes the quoted section to be ignored and split up into
  additional arguments (irrelevant output removed):

  autopkgtest-virt-qemu: DBG: full qemu command-line: ['qemu-system-
  aarch64', ... '-append', "'root=/dev/vda", 'init=/sbin/init', 'plus',
  'additional', "parameters'", '-kernel', '/boot/vmlinuz', '-initrd',
  '/boot/initrd.img']

  Each individual element of the "-append" argument is interpreted as an
  individual argument which is then additionally passed to qemu-system,
  as opposed to just being a single argument.

  The output *should* look more like this:

  autopkgtest-virt-qemu: DBG: full qemu command-line: ['qemu-system-
  aarch64', ... '-append', "root=/dev/vda init=/sbin/init plus
  additional parameters", '-kernel', '/boot/vmlinuz', '-initrd',
  '/boot/initrd.img']

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