diff --git a/tests/integration/kubernetes/k8s-confidential-attestation.bats b/tests/integration/kubernetes/k8s-confidential-attestation.bats
index 7ce61e822b..eeb536b3e2 100644
--- a/tests/integration/kubernetes/k8s-confidential-attestation.bats
+++ b/tests/integration/kubernetes/k8s-confidential-attestation.bats
@@ -146,15 +146,22 @@ setup() {
 	kbs_set_cpu0_resource_policy
 
 	# get measured artifacts from qemu command line of previous test
+	# Go runtime logs: "launching <path> with: [<args>]"
+	# runtime-rs logs: "qemu args: <args>"
 	log_line=$(sudo journalctl -r -x -t kata | grep -m 1 'launching.*qemu.*with:' || true)
-	qemu_cmd=$(echo "$log_line" | sed 's/.*with: \[\(.*\)\]".*/\1/')
+	if [[ -n "$log_line" ]]; then
+		qemu_cmd=$(echo "$log_line" | sed 's/.*with: \[\(.*\)\]".*/\1/')
+	else
+		log_line=$(sudo journalctl -r -x -t kata | grep -m 1 'qemu args:' || true)
+		qemu_cmd=$(echo "$log_line" | sed 's/.*qemu args: //')
+	fi
 	[[ -n "$qemu_cmd" ]] || { echo "Could not find QEMU command line"; return 1; }
 
 	kernel_path=$(echo "$qemu_cmd" | grep -oP -- '-kernel \K[^ ]+')
 	initrd_path=$(echo "$qemu_cmd" | grep -oP -- '-initrd \K[^ ]+' || true)
 	firmware_path=$(echo "$qemu_cmd" | grep -oP -- '-bios \K[^ ]+')
 	vcpu_count=$(echo "$qemu_cmd" | grep -oP -- '-smp \K\d+')
-	append=$(echo "$qemu_cmd" | sed -n 's/.*-append \(.*\) -bios.*/\1/p')
+	append=$(echo "$qemu_cmd" | grep -oP -- '-append \K.*?(?= -(smp|bios) )')
 	# Remove escape backslashes for quotes from output for dm-mod.create parameters
 	append="${append//\\\"/\"}"