diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/044 b/tests/qemu-iotests/044
index d696e6442a..a5ee9a7ded 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/044
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/044
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import os
 import qcow2
 from qcow2 import QcowHeader
 import iotests
-from iotests import qemu_img, qemu_img_verbose, qemu_io
+from iotests import qemu_img, qemu_img_log, qemu_io
 import struct
 import subprocess
 import sys
@@ -112,10 +112,11 @@ class TestRefcountTableGrowth(iotests.QMPTestCase):
 
     def test_grow_refcount_table(self):
         qemu_io('-c', 'write 3800M 1M', test_img)
-        qemu_img_verbose('check' , test_img)
+        qemu_img_log('check' , test_img)
         pass
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
+    iotests.activate_logging()
     iotests.main(supported_fmts=['qcow2'],
                  supported_protocols=['file'],
                  unsupported_imgopts=['refcount_bits'])
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/044.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/044.out
index 703cf3dee1..ff663b17d7 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/044.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/044.out
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 No errors were found on the image.
 7292415/33554432 = 21.73% allocated, 0.00% fragmented, 0.00% compressed clusters
 Image end offset: 4296217088
+
 .
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Ran 1 tests
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/209 b/tests/qemu-iotests/209
index ff7efea11b..f6ad08ec42 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/209
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/209
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@
 #
 
 import iotests
-from iotests import qemu_img_create, qemu_io, qemu_img_verbose, qemu_nbd, \
-                    file_path
+from iotests import qemu_img_create, qemu_io, qemu_img_log, qemu_nbd, \
+                    file_path, log
 
 iotests.script_initialize(supported_fmts=['qcow2'])
 
@@ -33,4 +33,5 @@ qemu_img_create('-f', iotests.imgfmt, disk, '1M')
 qemu_io('-f', iotests.imgfmt, '-c', 'write 0 512K', disk)
 
 qemu_nbd('-k', nbd_sock, '-x', 'exp', '-f', iotests.imgfmt, disk)
-qemu_img_verbose('map', '-f', 'raw', '--output=json', nbd_uri)
+qemu_img_log('map', '-f', 'raw', '--output=json', nbd_uri)
+log('done.')  # avoid new line at the end of output file
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/209.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/209.out
index f27be3fa7b..515906ac7a 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/209.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/209.out
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 [{ "start": 0, "length": 524288, "depth": 0, "present": true, "zero": false, "data": true, "offset": 0},
 { "start": 524288, "length": 524288, "depth": 0, "present": true, "zero": true, "data": false, "offset": 524288}]
+
+done.
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/iotests.py b/tests/qemu-iotests/iotests.py
index 740f8be36b..cc4bbbcf7b 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/iotests.py
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/iotests.py
@@ -235,14 +235,6 @@ def qemu_img_measure(*args):
 def qemu_img_check(*args):
     return json.loads(qemu_img_pipe("check", "--output", "json", *args))
 
-def qemu_img_verbose(*args):
-    '''Run qemu-img without suppressing its output and return the exit code'''
-    exitcode = subprocess.call(qemu_img_args + list(args))
-    if exitcode < 0:
-        sys.stderr.write('qemu-img received signal %i: %s\n'
-                         % (-exitcode, ' '.join(qemu_img_args + list(args))))
-    return exitcode
-
 def qemu_img_pipe(*args: str) -> str:
     '''Run qemu-img and return its output'''
     return qemu_img_pipe_and_status(*args)[0]