diff --git a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/console/ConsoleStateManager.java b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/console/ConsoleStateManager.java
index a21da1453d722..fb4ab24ab5cab 100644
--- a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/console/ConsoleStateManager.java
+++ b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/console/ConsoleStateManager.java
@@ -26,10 +26,13 @@
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
+import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
 import org.jboss.logmanager.LogManager;
 
 import io.quarkus.deployment.dev.RuntimeUpdatesProcessor;
+import io.quarkus.deployment.dev.testing.MessageFormat;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.dev.testing.TestSupport;
+import io.quarkus.deployment.util.CommandLineUtil;
 import io.quarkus.dev.console.QuarkusConsole;
 import io.quarkus.dev.spi.DevModeType;
 
@@ -97,6 +100,25 @@ void installBuiltins(DevModeType devModeType) {
             commands.add(new ConsoleCommand('s', "Force restart", null, () -> {
                 forceRestart();
             }));
+            commands.add(new ConsoleCommand('e', "Edits the command line parameters and restarts",
+                    "to edit command line args (currently '" + MessageFormat.GREEN
+                            + String.join(" ", RuntimeUpdatesProcessor.INSTANCE.getCommandLineArgs()) + MessageFormat.RESET
+                            + "')",
+                    100, new ConsoleCommand.HelpState(() -> BLUE,
+                            () -> String.join(" ", RuntimeUpdatesProcessor.INSTANCE.getCommandLineArgs())),
+                    new Consumer<String>() {
+                        @Override
+                        public void accept(String args) {
+                            try {
+                                RuntimeUpdatesProcessor.INSTANCE.setCommandLineArgs(
+                                        CommandLineUtil.translateCommandline(args));
+                            } catch (Exception e) {
+                                Logger.getLogger(ConsoleStateManager.class).errorf(e, "Failed to parse command line %s", args);
+                                return;
+                            }
+                            RuntimeUpdatesProcessor.INSTANCE.doScan(true, true);
+                        }
+                    }));
 
             commands.add(new ConsoleCommand('i', "Toggle instrumentation based reload",
                     new ConsoleCommand.HelpState(() -> RuntimeUpdatesProcessor.INSTANCE.instrumentationEnabled()), () -> {
diff --git a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/dev/IsolatedDevModeMain.java b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/dev/IsolatedDevModeMain.java
index 2f0a5402a4bc6..745e6a94317b2 100644
--- a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/dev/IsolatedDevModeMain.java
+++ b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/dev/IsolatedDevModeMain.java
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 package io.quarkus.deployment.dev;
 
-import static io.quarkus.deployment.dev.testing.MessageFormat.BLUE;
-
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.Closeable;
@@ -42,10 +40,8 @@
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.ApplicationClassPredicateBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.console.ConsoleCommand;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.console.ConsoleStateManager;
-import io.quarkus.deployment.dev.testing.MessageFormat;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.dev.testing.TestSupport;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.steps.ClassTransformingBuildStep;
-import io.quarkus.deployment.util.CommandLineUtil;
 import io.quarkus.dev.appstate.ApplicationStartException;
 import io.quarkus.dev.console.DevConsoleManager;
 import io.quarkus.dev.spi.DeploymentFailedStartHandler;
@@ -110,27 +106,7 @@ public void accept(Integer integer) {
                                         () -> {
                                             consoleContext.reset();
                                             RuntimeUpdatesProcessor.INSTANCE.doScan(true, true);
-                                        }),
-                                        new ConsoleCommand('e', "Edits the command line parameters and restarts",
-                                                "to edit command line args (currently '" + MessageFormat.GREEN
-                                                        + String.join(" ", context.getArgs()) + MessageFormat.RESET + "')",
-                                                100, new ConsoleCommand.HelpState(() -> BLUE,
-                                                        () -> String.join(" ", context.getArgs())),
-                                                new Consumer<String>() {
-                                                    @Override
-                                                    public void accept(String args) {
-                                                        try {
-                                                            context.setArgs(
-                                                                    CommandLineUtil.translateCommandline(args));
-                                                        } catch (Exception e) {
-                                                            log.error("Failed to parse command line", e);
-                                                            return;
-                                                        }
-                                                        consoleContext.reset();
-                                                        RuntimeUpdatesProcessor.INSTANCE.doScan(true, true);
-                                                    }
-                                                }));
-
+                                        }));
                             }
                         });
 
diff --git a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/dev/RuntimeUpdatesProcessor.java b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/dev/RuntimeUpdatesProcessor.java
index c72ffcdf0f0f5..d256e61e2b500 100644
--- a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/dev/RuntimeUpdatesProcessor.java
+++ b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/dev/RuntimeUpdatesProcessor.java
@@ -1252,4 +1252,16 @@ boolean isWatchedFileRestartNeeded(String changedFile) {
         }
     }
 
+    public String[] getCommandLineArgs() {
+        String[] contextArgs = context.getArgs();
+        if (contextArgs == null) {
+            return new String[0];
+        }
+        return contextArgs;
+    }
+
+    public RuntimeUpdatesProcessor setCommandLineArgs(String[] commandLineArgs) {
+        this.context.setArgs(commandLineArgs);
+        return this;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/test-framework/junit5-internal/src/main/java/io/quarkus/test/QuarkusDevModeTest.java b/test-framework/junit5-internal/src/main/java/io/quarkus/test/QuarkusDevModeTest.java
index 9a449d60c72f8..f3806306e8cf8 100644
--- a/test-framework/junit5-internal/src/main/java/io/quarkus/test/QuarkusDevModeTest.java
+++ b/test-framework/junit5-internal/src/main/java/io/quarkus/test/QuarkusDevModeTest.java
@@ -286,6 +286,7 @@ public void close() throws Throwable {
             context.setTest(true);
             context.setAbortOnFailedStart(!allowFailedStart);
             context.getBuildSystemProperties().put("quarkus.banner.enabled", "false");
+            context.getBuildSystemProperties().put("quarkus.console.disable-input", "true"); //surefire communicates via stdin, we don't want the test to be reading input
             context.getBuildSystemProperties().putAll(buildSystemProperties);
             devModeMain = new DevModeMain(context);
             devModeMain.start();