tests/vm: allow interactive login as root

This is useful when debugging and you want to add packages to an
image.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20250108121054.1126164-30-alex.bennee@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tests/vm/basevm.py b/tests/vm/basevm.py
index 6f3f2e76df..6d41ac7574 100644
--- a/tests/vm/basevm.py
+++ b/tests/vm/basevm.py
@@ -612,8 +612,11 @@ def parse_args(vmcls):
     parser.add_argument("--source-path", default=None,
                         help="Path of source directory, "\
                         "for finding additional files. ")
-    parser.add_argument("--interactive", "-I", action="store_true",
-                        help="Interactively run command")
+    int_ops = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
+    int_ops.add_argument("--interactive", "-I", action="store_true",
+                         help="Interactively run command")
+    int_ops.add_argument("--interactive-root", action="store_true",
+                         help="Interactively run command as root")
     parser.add_argument("--snapshot", "-s", action="store_true",
                         help="run tests with a snapshot")
     parser.add_argument("--genisoimage", default="genisoimage",
@@ -675,6 +678,8 @@ def main(vmcls, config=None):
         exitcode = 3
     if args.interactive:
         vm.ssh()
+    elif args.interactive_root:
+        vm.ssh_root()
 
     if not args.snapshot:
         vm.graceful_shutdown()