diff --git a/block/nbd-client.c b/block/nbd-client.c
index de6c153328..daa4392531 100644
--- a/block/nbd-client.c
+++ b/block/nbd-client.c
@@ -697,6 +697,7 @@ int nbd_client_co_pwritev(BlockDriverState *bs, uint64_t offset,
         .len = bytes,
     };
 
+    assert(!(client->info.flags & NBD_FLAG_READ_ONLY));
     if (flags & BDRV_REQ_FUA) {
         assert(client->info.flags & NBD_FLAG_SEND_FUA);
         request.flags |= NBD_CMD_FLAG_FUA;
@@ -717,6 +718,7 @@ int nbd_client_co_pwrite_zeroes(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t offset,
         .len = bytes,
     };
 
+    assert(!(client->info.flags & NBD_FLAG_READ_ONLY));
     if (!(client->info.flags & NBD_FLAG_SEND_WRITE_ZEROES)) {
         return -ENOTSUP;
     }
@@ -756,6 +758,7 @@ int nbd_client_co_pdiscard(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t offset, int bytes)
         .len = bytes,
     };
 
+    assert(!(client->info.flags & NBD_FLAG_READ_ONLY));
     if (!(client->info.flags & NBD_FLAG_SEND_TRIM)) {
         return 0;
     }
@@ -814,6 +817,12 @@ int nbd_client_init(BlockDriverState *bs,
         logout("Failed to negotiate with the NBD server\n");
         return ret;
     }
+    if (client->info.flags & NBD_FLAG_READ_ONLY &&
+        !bdrv_is_read_only(bs)) {
+        error_setg(errp,
+                   "request for write access conflicts with read-only export");
+        return -EACCES;
+    }
     if (client->info.flags & NBD_FLAG_SEND_FUA) {
         bs->supported_write_flags = BDRV_REQ_FUA;
         bs->supported_zero_flags |= BDRV_REQ_FUA;
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/058 b/tests/qemu-iotests/058
index 2253c6a6d1..5eb8784669 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/058
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/058
@@ -117,15 +117,15 @@ _export_nbd_snapshot sn1
 
 echo
 echo "== verifying the exported snapshot with patterns, method 1 =="
-$QEMU_IO_NBD -c 'read -P 0xa 0x1000 0x1000' "$nbd_snapshot_img" | _filter_qemu_io
-$QEMU_IO_NBD -c 'read -P 0xb 0x2000 0x1000' "$nbd_snapshot_img" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO_NBD -r -c 'read -P 0xa 0x1000 0x1000' "$nbd_snapshot_img" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO_NBD -r -c 'read -P 0xb 0x2000 0x1000' "$nbd_snapshot_img" | _filter_qemu_io
 
 _export_nbd_snapshot1 sn1
 
 echo
 echo "== verifying the exported snapshot with patterns, method 2 =="
-$QEMU_IO_NBD -c 'read -P 0xa 0x1000 0x1000' "$nbd_snapshot_img" | _filter_qemu_io
-$QEMU_IO_NBD -c 'read -P 0xb 0x2000 0x1000' "$nbd_snapshot_img" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO_NBD -r -c 'read -P 0xa 0x1000 0x1000' "$nbd_snapshot_img" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO_NBD -r -c 'read -P 0xb 0x2000 0x1000' "$nbd_snapshot_img" | _filter_qemu_io
 
 $QEMU_IMG convert "$TEST_IMG" -l sn1 -O qcow2 "$converted_image"
 
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/140 b/tests/qemu-iotests/140
index f89d0d6789..a8fc95145c 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/140
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/140
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ _send_qemu_cmd $QEMU_HANDLE \
        'arguments': { 'device': 'drv' }}" \
     'return'
 
-$QEMU_IO_PROG -f raw -c 'read -P 42 0 64k' \
+$QEMU_IO_PROG -f raw -r -c 'read -P 42 0 64k' \
     "nbd+unix:///drv?socket=$TEST_DIR/nbd" 2>&1 \
     | _filter_qemu_io | _filter_nbd
 
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ _send_qemu_cmd $QEMU_HANDLE \
        'arguments': { 'device': 'drv' }}" \
     'return'
 
-$QEMU_IO_PROG -f raw -c close \
+$QEMU_IO_PROG -f raw -r -c close \
     "nbd+unix:///drv?socket=$TEST_DIR/nbd" 2>&1 \
     | _filter_qemu_io | _filter_nbd
 
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/147 b/tests/qemu-iotests/147
index db34838cd0..90f40ed245 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/147
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/147
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ class NBDBlockdevAddBase(iotests.QMPTestCase):
                     'driver': 'raw',
                     'file': {
                         'driver': 'nbd',
+                        'read-only': True,
                         'server': address
                     } }
         if export is not None: