25 files changed, 220 insertions, 105 deletions
diff --git a/tests/prom-env-test.c b/tests/prom-env-test.c
index 0ba6f48607..bd33bc353d 100644
--- a/tests/prom-env-test.c
+++ b/tests/prom-env-test.c
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ static void check_guest_memory(void)
     uint32_t signature;
     int i;
 
-    /* Poll until code has run and modified memory. Wait at most 30 seconds */
-    for (i = 0; i < 10000; ++i) {
+    /* Poll until code has run and modified memory. Wait at most 120 seconds */
+    for (i = 0; i < 12000; ++i) {
         signature = readl(ADDRESS);
         if (signature == MAGIC) {
             break;
@@ -45,9 +45,14 @@ static void check_guest_memory(void)
 static void test_machine(const void *machine)
 {
     char *args;
+    const char *extra_args;
 
-    args = g_strdup_printf("-M %s,accel=tcg -prom-env 'boot-command=%x %x l!'",
-                           (const char *)machine, MAGIC, ADDRESS);
+    /* The pseries firmware boots much faster without the default devices */
+    extra_args = strcmp(machine, "pseries") == 0 ? "-nodefaults" : "";
+
+    args = g_strdup_printf("-M %s,accel=tcg %s -prom-env 'use-nvramrc?=true' "
+                           "-prom-env 'nvramrc=%x %x l!' ",
+                           (const char *)machine, extra_args, MAGIC, ADDRESS);
 
     qtest_start(args);
     check_guest_memory();
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/.gitignore b/tests/qemu-iotests/.gitignore
index 0711cbdbf3..da62054000 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/.gitignore
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 check.log
-check.time
+check.time*
 common.env
 *.out.bad
 *.notrun
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/059.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/059.out
index 678adb4379..6154509bc3 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/059.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/059.out
@@ -3,17 +3,14 @@ QA output created by 059
 === Testing invalid granularity ===
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.vmdk: Invalid granularity, image may be corrupt
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 === Testing too big L2 table size ===
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.vmdk: L2 table size too big
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 === Testing too big L1 table size ===
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.vmdk: L1 size too big
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 === Testing monolithicFlat creation and opening ===
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=2147483648 subformat=monolithicFlat
@@ -2361,5 +2358,5 @@ Offset          Length          Mapped to       File
 0x140000000     0x10000         0x50000         TEST_DIR/iotest-version3-s003.vmdk
 
 === Testing afl image with a very large capacity ===
-qemu-img: Can't get size of device 'image': File too large
+qemu-img: Can't get image size 'TEST_DIR/afl9.IMGFMT': File too large
 *** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/070.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/070.out
index 131a5b17dc..c269d99483 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/070.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/070.out
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ QA output created by 070
 can't open device TEST_DIR/iotest-dirtylog-10G-4M.vhdx: VHDX image file 'TEST_DIR/iotest-dirtylog-10G-4M.vhdx' opened read-only, but contains a log that needs to be replayed
 To replay the log, run:
 qemu-img check -r all 'TEST_DIR/iotest-dirtylog-10G-4M.vhdx'
- no file open, try 'help open'
 === Verify open image replays log  ===
 read 18874368/18874368 bytes at offset 0
 18 MiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/075.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/075.out
index 87beae4e3c..b234b758e0 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/075.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/075.out
@@ -10,29 +10,22 @@ read 512/512 bytes at offset 1048064
 
 == block_size must be a multiple of 512 ==
 can't open device TEST_DIR/simple-pattern.cloop: block_size 513 must be a multiple of 512
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == block_size cannot be zero ==
 can't open device TEST_DIR/simple-pattern.cloop: block_size cannot be zero
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == huge block_size ===
 can't open device TEST_DIR/simple-pattern.cloop: block_size 4294966784 must be 64 MB or less
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == offsets_size overflow ===
 can't open device TEST_DIR/simple-pattern.cloop: n_blocks 4294967295 must be 536870911 or less
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == refuse images that require too many offsets ===
 can't open device TEST_DIR/simple-pattern.cloop: image requires too many offsets, try increasing block size
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == refuse images with non-monotonically increasing offsets ==
 can't open device TEST_DIR/simple-pattern.cloop: offsets not monotonically increasing at index 1, image file is corrupt
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == refuse images with invalid compressed block size ==
 can't open device TEST_DIR/simple-pattern.cloop: invalid compressed block size at index 1, image file is corrupt
-no file open, try 'help open'
 *** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/076.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/076.out
index 72645b2522..9c66c5fb46 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/076.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/076.out
@@ -6,15 +6,12 @@ read 65536/65536 bytes at offset 0
 
 == Negative catalog size ==
 can't open device TEST_DIR/parallels-v1: Catalog too large
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == Overflow in catalog allocation ==
 can't open device TEST_DIR/parallels-v1: Catalog too large
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == Zero sectors per track ==
 can't open device TEST_DIR/parallels-v1: Invalid image: Zero sectors per track
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == Read from a valid v2 image ==
 read 65536/65536 bytes at offset 0
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/078.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/078.out
index 42b8a83015..c3d6aa4fe4 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/078.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/078.out
@@ -6,23 +6,17 @@ read 512/512 bytes at offset 0
 
 == Negative catalog size ==
 can't open device TEST_DIR/empty.bochs: Catalog size is too large
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == Overflow for catalog size * sizeof(uint32_t) ==
 can't open device TEST_DIR/empty.bochs: Catalog size is too large
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == Too small catalog bitmap for image size ==
 can't open device TEST_DIR/empty.bochs: Catalog size is too small for this disk size
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/empty.bochs: Catalog size is too small for this disk size
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == Negative extent size ==
 can't open device TEST_DIR/empty.bochs: Extent size 2147483648 is too large
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == Zero extent size ==
 can't open device TEST_DIR/empty.bochs: Extent size must be at least 512
-no file open, try 'help open'
 *** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/080.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/080.out
index 0daac48b12..6a7fda1356 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/080.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/080.out
@@ -3,46 +3,33 @@ QA output created by 080
 == Huge header size ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow2: qcow2 header exceeds cluster size
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow2: qcow2 header exceeds cluster size
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == Huge unknown header extension ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow2: Invalid backing file offset
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow2: Header extension too large
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow2: Header extension too large
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == Huge refcount table size ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow2: Reference count table too large
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow2: Reference count table too large
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == Misaligned refcount table ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow2: Invalid reference count table offset
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == Huge refcount offset ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow2: Invalid reference count table offset
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == Invalid snapshot table ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow2: Too many snapshots
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow2: Too many snapshots
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow2: Invalid snapshot table offset
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow2: Invalid snapshot table offset
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == Hitting snapshot table size limit ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
@@ -53,13 +40,9 @@ read 512/512 bytes at offset 0
 == Invalid L1 table ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow2: Active L1 table too large
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow2: Active L1 table too large
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow2: Invalid L1 table offset
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow2: Invalid L1 table offset
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == Invalid L1 table (with internal snapshot in the image) ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
@@ -68,7 +51,6 @@ qemu-img: Could not open 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT': L1 table is too small
 == Invalid backing file size ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow2: Backing file name too long
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == Invalid L2 entry (huge physical offset) ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/083.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/083.out
index ef3d1e32a5..0c13888ba1 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/083.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/083.out
@@ -2,52 +2,42 @@ QA output created by 083
 === Check disconnect before neg1 ===
 
 can't open device nbd:127.0.0.1:PORT:exportname=foo
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 === Check disconnect after neg1 ===
 
 can't open device nbd:127.0.0.1:PORT:exportname=foo
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 === Check disconnect 8 neg1 ===
 
 can't open device nbd:127.0.0.1:PORT:exportname=foo
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 === Check disconnect 16 neg1 ===
 
 can't open device nbd:127.0.0.1:PORT:exportname=foo
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 === Check disconnect before export ===
 
 can't open device nbd:127.0.0.1:PORT:exportname=foo
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 === Check disconnect after export ===
 
 can't open device nbd:127.0.0.1:PORT:exportname=foo
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 === Check disconnect 4 export ===
 
 can't open device nbd:127.0.0.1:PORT:exportname=foo
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 === Check disconnect 12 export ===
 
 can't open device nbd:127.0.0.1:PORT:exportname=foo
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 === Check disconnect 16 export ===
 
 can't open device nbd:127.0.0.1:PORT:exportname=foo
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 === Check disconnect before neg2 ===
 
 can't open device nbd:127.0.0.1:PORT:exportname=foo
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 === Check disconnect after neg2 ===
 
@@ -56,12 +46,10 @@ read failed: Input/output error
 === Check disconnect 8 neg2 ===
 
 can't open device nbd:127.0.0.1:PORT:exportname=foo
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 === Check disconnect 10 neg2 ===
 
 can't open device nbd:127.0.0.1:PORT:exportname=foo
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 === Check disconnect before request ===
 
@@ -99,27 +87,22 @@ read 512/512 bytes at offset 0
 === Check disconnect before neg-classic ===
 
 can't open device nbd:127.0.0.1:PORT
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 === Check disconnect 8 neg-classic ===
 
 can't open device nbd:127.0.0.1:PORT
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 === Check disconnect 16 neg-classic ===
 
 can't open device nbd:127.0.0.1:PORT
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 === Check disconnect 24 neg-classic ===
 
 can't open device nbd:127.0.0.1:PORT
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 === Check disconnect 28 neg-classic ===
 
 can't open device nbd:127.0.0.1:PORT
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 === Check disconnect after neg-classic ===
 
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/088.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/088.out
index a2a83b8a1c..1f6bcf0abc 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/088.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/088.out
@@ -3,15 +3,9 @@ QA output created by 088
 == Invalid block size ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.vpc: Invalid block size 0
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.vpc: Invalid block size 0
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.vpc: Invalid block size 128
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.vpc: Invalid block size 128
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.vpc: Invalid block size 305419896
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.vpc: Invalid block size 305419896
-no file open, try 'help open'
 *** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/092.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/092.out
index e18f54c200..6eda321fc6 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/092.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/092.out
@@ -3,36 +3,24 @@ QA output created by 092
 == Invalid cluster size ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow: Cluster size must be between 512 and 64k
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow: Cluster size must be between 512 and 64k
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow: Cluster size must be between 512 and 64k
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow: Cluster size must be between 512 and 64k
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == Invalid L2 table size ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow: L2 table size must be between 512 and 64k
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow: L2 table size must be between 512 and 64k
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow: L2 table size must be between 512 and 64k
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow: L2 table size must be between 512 and 64k
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == Invalid size ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow: Image too large
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow: Image too large
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == Invalid backing file length ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow: Backing file name too long
-no file open, try 'help open'
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow: Backing file name too long
-no file open, try 'help open'
 *** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/116.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/116.out
index 1f11d4446d..24bee57783 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/116.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/116.out
@@ -3,35 +3,28 @@ QA output created by 116
 == truncated header cluster ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=134217728
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qed: Could not open 'TEST_DIR/t.qed': Invalid argument
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == invalid header magic ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=134217728
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qed: Image not in QED format
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == invalid cluster size ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=134217728
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qed: Could not open 'TEST_DIR/t.qed': Invalid argument
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == invalid table size ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=134217728
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qed: Could not open 'TEST_DIR/t.qed': Invalid argument
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == invalid header size ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=134217728
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qed: Could not open 'TEST_DIR/t.qed': Invalid argument
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == invalid L1 table offset ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=134217728
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qed: Could not open 'TEST_DIR/t.qed': Invalid argument
-no file open, try 'help open'
 
 == invalid image size ==
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=134217728
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qed: Could not open 'TEST_DIR/t.qed': Invalid argument
-no file open, try 'help open'
 *** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/131.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/131.out
index ae2412ebf7..27c2c5389b 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/131.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/131.out
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ read 32768/32768 bytes at offset 0
 32 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
 == Corrupt image ==
 can't open device TEST_DIR/t.parallels: parallels: Image was not closed correctly; cannot be opened read/write
-no file open, try 'help open'
 ERROR image was not closed correctly
 
 1 errors were found on the image.
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/140.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/140.out
index 0409cd0174..6c0445603a 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/140.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/140.out
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ read 65536/65536 bytes at offset 0
 64 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
 {"return": {}}
 can't open device nbd+unix:///drv?socket=TEST_DIR/nbd: No export with name 'drv' available
-no file open, try 'help open'
 {"return": {}}
 {"timestamp": {"seconds":  TIMESTAMP, "microseconds":  TIMESTAMP}, "event": "SHUTDOWN"}
 *** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/173 b/tests/qemu-iotests/173
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..bdaa092979
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/173
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Test QAPI commands looking up protocol based images with relative
+# filename backing strings
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2017 Red Hat, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+# creator
+owner=jcody@redhat.com
+
+seq=`basename $0`
+echo "QA output created by $seq"
+
+here=`pwd`
+status=1    # failure is the default!
+
+_cleanup()
+{
+    _cleanup_qemu
+    rm  -f "${QEMU_TEST_DIR}/image.base" "${QEMU_TEST_DIR}/image.snp1"
+    _cleanup_test_img
+}
+trap "_cleanup; exit \$status" 0 1 2 3 15
+
+# get standard environment, filters and checks
+. ./common.rc
+. ./common.filter
+. ./common.qemu
+
+_supported_fmt qcow2
+_supported_proto nfs
+_supported_os Linux
+
+size=100M
+
+BASE_IMG="${TEST_DIR}/image.base"
+TOP_IMG="${TEST_DIR}/image.snp1"
+
+TEST_IMG="${BASE_IMG}" _make_test_img $size
+
+TEST_IMG="${TOP_IMG}" _make_test_img $size
+
+echo
+echo === Running QEMU, using block-stream to find backing image ===
+echo
+
+qemu_comm_method="qmp"
+_launch_qemu -drive file="${BASE_IMG}",if=virtio,id=disk2
+h=$QEMU_HANDLE
+
+_send_qemu_cmd $h "{ 'execute': 'qmp_capabilities' }" "return"
+
+_send_qemu_cmd $h "{ 'arguments': {
+                        'device': 'disk2',
+                        'format': '${IMGFMT}',
+                        'mode': 'existing',
+                        'snapshot-file': '${TOP_IMG}',
+                        'snapshot-node-name': 'snp1'
+                     },
+                     'execute': 'blockdev-snapshot-sync'
+                   }" "return"
+
+
+_send_qemu_cmd $h "{ 'arguments': {
+                        'backing-file': 'image.base',
+                        'device': 'disk2',
+                        'image-node-name': 'snp1'
+                     },
+                     'execute': 'change-backing-file'
+                   }" "return"
+
+_send_qemu_cmd $h "{ 'arguments': {
+                        'base': '${BASE_IMG}',
+                        'device': 'disk2'
+                      },
+                      'execute': 'block-stream'
+                   }" "BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED"
+
+_cleanup_qemu
+
+# success, all done
+echo "*** done"
+rm -f $seq.full
+status=0
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/173.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/173.out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f477a0099a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/173.out
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+QA output created by 173
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/image.base', fmt=IMGFMT size=104857600
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/image.snp1', fmt=IMGFMT size=104857600
+
+=== Running QEMU, using block-stream to find backing image ===
+
+{"return": {}}
+{"return": {}}
+{"return": {}}
+{"return": {}}
+{"timestamp": {"seconds":  TIMESTAMP, "microseconds":  TIMESTAMP}, "event": "BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED", "data": {"device": "disk2", "len": 104857600, "offset": 104857600, "speed": 0, "type": "stream"}}
+*** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/174 b/tests/qemu-iotests/174
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..c1c20a1a57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/174
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Test that qemu-io fail with non-zero exit code
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2017 Nir Soffer <nirsof@gmail.com>
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+
+# creator
+owner=nirsof@gmail.com
+
+seq=`basename $0`
+echo "QA output created by $seq"
+
+here=`pwd`
+status=1	# failure is the default!
+
+_cleanup()
+{
+	_cleanup_test_img
+}
+trap "_cleanup; exit \$status" 0 1 2 3 15
+
+# get standard environment, filters and checks
+. ./common.rc
+. ./common.filter
+
+_unsupported_fmt raw
+
+
+size=256K
+IMGFMT=raw IMGOPTS= _make_test_img $size | _filter_imgfmt
+
+echo
+echo "== reading wrong format should fail =="
+$QEMU_IO -f $IMGFMT -c "read 0 $size" "$TEST_IMG" 2>/dev/null
+test $? -eq 1 || _fail "did not fail"
+
+echo
+echo "== reading missing file should fail =="
+$QEMU_IO -c "read 0 $size" "$TEST_DIR/missing" 2>/dev/null
+test $? -eq 1 || _fail "did not fail"
+
+# success, all done
+echo "*** done"
+rm -f $seq.full
+status=0
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/174.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/174.out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a06d23792e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/174.out
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+QA output created by 174
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=262144
+
+== reading wrong format should fail ==
+
+== reading missing file should fail ==
+*** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/Makefile b/tests/qemu-iotests/Makefile
index 2fb527c5b5..27380e60c1 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/Makefile
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-CLEANFILES= *.out.bad *.notrun check.log check.time
+CLEANFILES= *.out.bad *.notrun check.log check.time*
 
 # no default target
 default:
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/check b/tests/qemu-iotests/check
index 4cba2151e4..4b1c6749b7 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/check
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/check
@@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ fi
 #    exit 1
 #fi
 
+TIMESTAMP_FILE=check.time-$IMGPROTO-$IMGFMT
+
 tmp="${TEST_DIR}"/$$
 
 _wallclock()
@@ -155,9 +157,9 @@ _wrapup()
         :
     elif $needwrap
     then
-        if [ -f check.time -a -f $tmp.time ]
+        if [ -f $TIMESTAMP_FILE -a -f $tmp.time ]
         then
-            cat check.time $tmp.time \
+            cat $TIMESTAMP_FILE $tmp.time \
             | $AWK_PROG '
         { t[$1] = $2 }
 END        { if (NR > 0) {
@@ -165,7 +167,7 @@ END        { if (NR > 0) {
           }
         }' \
             | sort -n >$tmp.out
-            mv $tmp.out check.time
+            mv $tmp.out $TIMESTAMP_FILE
         fi
 
         if [ -f $tmp.expunged ]
@@ -223,7 +225,7 @@ echo "preamble" > "${TEST_DIR}"/check.sts
 # don't leave old full output behind on a clean run
 rm -f check.full
 
-[ -f check.time ] || touch check.time
+[ -f $TIMESTAMP_FILE ] || touch $TIMESTAMP_FILE
 
 FULL_IMGFMT_DETAILS=`_full_imgfmt_details`
 FULL_IMGPROTO_DETAILS=`_full_imgproto_details`
@@ -277,7 +279,7 @@ do
         # really going to try and run this one
         #
         rm -f $seq.out.bad
-        lasttime=`sed -n -e "/^$seq /s/.* //p" <check.time`
+        lasttime=`sed -n -e "/^$seq /s/.* //p" <$TIMESTAMP_FILE`
         if [ "X$lasttime" != X ]; then
                 echo -n " ${lasttime}s ..."
         else
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.config b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.config
index f6384fbae7..55527aac87 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.config
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.config
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ _qemu_wrapper()
 {
     (
         if [ -n "${QEMU_NEED_PID}" ]; then
-            echo $BASHPID > "${TEST_DIR}/qemu-${_QEMU_HANDLE}.pid"
+            echo $BASHPID > "${QEMU_TEST_DIR}/qemu-${_QEMU_HANDLE}.pid"
         fi
         exec "$QEMU_PROG" $QEMU_OPTIONS "$@"
     )
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ _qemu_io_wrapper()
 _qemu_nbd_wrapper()
 {
     (
-        echo $BASHPID > "${TEST_DIR}/qemu-nbd.pid"
+        echo $BASHPID > "${QEMU_TEST_DIR}/qemu-nbd.pid"
         exec "$QEMU_NBD_PROG" $QEMU_NBD_OPTIONS "$@"
     )
 }
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ if [ -z "$TEST_DIR" ]; then
         TEST_DIR=`pwd`/scratch
 fi
 
+QEMU_TEST_DIR="${TEST_DIR}"
+
 if [ ! -e "$TEST_DIR" ]; then
         mkdir "$TEST_DIR"
 fi
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.filter b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.filter
index 240ed0697a..4befd865f4 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.filter
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.filter
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ _filter_generated_node_ids()
 # replace occurrences of the actual TEST_DIR value with TEST_DIR
 _filter_testdir()
 {
-    sed -e "s#$TEST_DIR#TEST_DIR#g"
+    sed -e "s#$TEST_DIR/#TEST_DIR/#g"
 }
 
 # replace occurrences of the actual IMGFMT value with IMGFMT
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.qemu b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.qemu
index e657361790..42787896af 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.qemu
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.qemu
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
 
 QEMU_COMM_TIMEOUT=10
 
-QEMU_FIFO_IN="${TEST_DIR}/qmp-in-$$"
-QEMU_FIFO_OUT="${TEST_DIR}/qmp-out-$$"
+QEMU_FIFO_IN="${QEMU_TEST_DIR}/qmp-in-$$"
+QEMU_FIFO_OUT="${QEMU_TEST_DIR}/qmp-out-$$"
 
 QEMU_HANDLE=0
 
@@ -204,9 +204,9 @@ function _cleanup_qemu()
     for i in "${!QEMU_OUT[@]}"
     do
         local QEMU_PID
-        if [ -f "${TEST_DIR}/qemu-${i}.pid" ]; then
-            read QEMU_PID < "${TEST_DIR}/qemu-${i}.pid"
-            rm -f "${TEST_DIR}/qemu-${i}.pid"
+        if [ -f "${QEMU_TEST_DIR}/qemu-${i}.pid" ]; then
+            read QEMU_PID < "${QEMU_TEST_DIR}/qemu-${i}.pid"
+            rm -f "${QEMU_TEST_DIR}/qemu-${i}.pid"
             if [ -z "${wait}" ] && [ -n "${QEMU_PID}" ]; then
                 kill -KILL ${QEMU_PID} 2>/dev/null
             fi
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc
index 3213765f4e..a3d904fc22 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc
@@ -193,11 +193,11 @@ _cleanup_test_img()
     case "$IMGPROTO" in
 
         nbd)
-            if [ -f "${TEST_DIR}/qemu-nbd.pid" ]; then
+            if [ -f "${QEMU_TEST_DIR}/qemu-nbd.pid" ]; then
                 local QEMU_NBD_PID
-                read QEMU_NBD_PID < "${TEST_DIR}/qemu-nbd.pid"
+                read QEMU_NBD_PID < "${QEMU_TEST_DIR}/qemu-nbd.pid"
                 kill ${QEMU_NBD_PID}
-                rm -f "${TEST_DIR}/qemu-nbd.pid"
+                rm -f "${QEMU_TEST_DIR}/qemu-nbd.pid"
             fi
             rm -f "$TEST_IMG_FILE"
             ;;
@@ -355,6 +355,17 @@ _supported_fmt()
     _notrun "not suitable for this image format: $IMGFMT"
 }
 
+# tests whether $IMGFMT is one of the unsupported image format for a test
+#
+_unsupported_fmt()
+{
+    for f; do
+        if [ "$f" = "$IMGFMT" ]; then
+            _notrun "not suitable for this image format: $IMGFMT"
+        fi
+    done
+}
+
 # tests whether $IMGPROTO is one of the supported image protocols for a test
 #
 _supported_proto()
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/group b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
index 866c1a032d..985b9a6a36 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/group
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
@@ -165,3 +165,5 @@
 170 rw auto quick
 171 rw auto quick
 172 auto
+173 rw auto
+174 auto