I'm having trouble with autopkgtest-virt-qemu as well. Unfortunately the PR from Simon does not help here, I'm still getting timeouts like this:
$ autopkgtest --debug fsarchiver*.dsc -- qemu
/apps/chroot/autopkgtest-sid-2.img
autopkgtest: DBG: autopkgtest options: Namespace(add_apt_releases=[],
add_apt_sources=[], apt_default_release=None, apt_pocket=[],
auto_control=True, build_parallel=None, built_binaries=True, copy=[],
enable_apt_fallback=True, env=[], gainroot=None, installed_click=None,
logfile=None, output_dir=None, override_control=None,
packages=['fsarchiver_0.8.5-2.dsc'], pin_packages=[], set_lang=None,
setup_commands=[], setup_commands_boot=[], shell=False,
shell_fail=False, summary=None, testname=None, timeout_build=None,
timeout_copy=None, timeout_factor=1.0, timeout_install=None,
timeout_short=None, timeout_test=None, user=None, verbosity=2)
autopkgtest: DBG: virt-runner arguments: ['qemu',
'/apps/chroot/autopkgtest-sid-2.img']
autopkgtest: DBG: actions: [('source', 'fsarchiver_0.8.5-2.dsc', True)]
autopkgtest: DBG: build binaries: True
autopkgtest: DBG: testbed init
autopkgtest [02:04:35]: version 5.7+nmu1
autopkgtest [02:04:35]: host pluto; command line: /usr/bin/autopkgtest
--debug fsarchiver_0.8.5-2.dsc -- qemu /apps/chroot/autopkgtest-sid-2.img
autopkgtest: DBG: got reply from testbed: ok
autopkgtest: DBG: testbed open, scratch=None
autopkgtest: DBG: sending command to testbed: open
qemu-system-x86_64: terminating on signal 15 from pid 20325
(/usr/bin/python3)
<VirtSubproc>: failure: timed out waiting for "login prompt on ttyS0"
autopkgtest: DBG: TestbedFailure unexpected eof from the testbed
autopkgtest: DBG: testbed stop
autopkgtest: DBG: testbed close, scratch=None
autopkgtest: DBG: sending command to testbed: quit
autopkgtest: DBG: TestbedFailure cannot send to testbed: [Errno 32]
Broken pipe
autopkgtest: DBG: testbed stop
autopkgtest [02:05:36]: ERROR: testbed failure: cannot send to testbed:
[Errno 32] Broken pipe
autopkgtest: DBG: testbed stop
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