diff --git a/gns3server/compute/qemu/qemu_vm.py b/gns3server/compute/qemu/qemu_vm.py
index 87d4b9ab..92d2adb8 100644
--- a/gns3server/compute/qemu/qemu_vm.py
+++ b/gns3server/compute/qemu/qemu_vm.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ order to run a QEMU VM.
 import sys
 import os
 import re
+import shlex
 import math
 import shutil
 import asyncio