I hava run into some troubles when I use bash shell to execute qemu, here is the log.
1. Run qemu with arguments directly in bash shell, I use strace to track execve syscall, everything goes well junan@u0:~/Documents/coding/run-riscv-qemu-linux$ strace qemu-system-riscv64 -nographic -machine virt -kernel ../linux-5.11/arch/riscv/boot/Image -append "root=/dev/vda ro console=ttyS0" -drive file=root.ext4,format=raw,id=hd0 -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 execve("/usr/bin/qemu-system-riscv64", ["qemu-system-riscv64", "-nographic", "-machine", "virt", "-kernel", "../linux-5.11/arch/riscv/boot/Im"..., "-append", "root=/dev/vda ro console=ttyS0", "-drive", "file=root.ext4,format=raw,id=hd0", "-device", "virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0"], 0x7ffc39cda858 /* 58 vars */) = 0 brk(NULL) = 0x55bb77e20000 arch_prctl(0x3001 /* ARCH_??? */, 0x7ffd61474450) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 1. But when I use bash variables to do it again, something wired happend, as you can see, the argument "root=/dev/vda ro console=ttyS0" is splited into different parts, so qemu did not start successfully 😋 junan@u0:~/Documents/coding/run-riscv-qemu-linux$ echo $QEMU qemu-system-riscv64 junan@u0:~/Documents/coding/run-riscv-qemu-linux$ echo $QOPTIONS -nographic -machine virt -kernel ../linux-5.11/arch/riscv/boot/Image -append "root=/dev/vda ro console=ttyS0" -drive file=root.ext4,format=raw,id=hd0 -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 junan@u0:~/Documents/coding/run-riscv-qemu-linux$ strace $QEMU $QOPTIONS execve("/usr/bin/qemu-system-riscv64", ["qemu-system-riscv64", "-nographic", "-machine", "virt", "-kernel", "../linux-5.11/arch/riscv/boot/Im"..., "-append", "\"root=/dev/vda", "ro", "console=ttyS0\"", "-drive", "file=root.ext4,format=raw,id=hd0", "-device", "virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0"], 0x7ffe1e71a928 /* 58 vars */) = 0 brk(NULL) = 0x5613dfdc4000 Thank you all for making so many excellent softwares, and I wish this will help to improve the bash shell 😊.