# Silence output since it contains the disk image path and QEMU's readline
# character echoing makes it very hard to filter the output. Plus, there
# is no telling how many times the command will repeat before succeeding.
-_send_qemu_cmd $h "drive_backup disk ${TEST_IMG}.copy" "(qemu)" >/dev/null
-_send_qemu_cmd $h "" "Formatting" | _filter_img_create
-qemu_cmd_repeat=20 _send_qemu_cmd $h "info block-jobs" "No active jobs" >/dev/null
+# (Note that creating the image results in a "Formatting..." message over
+# stdout, which is the same channel the monitor uses. We cannot reliably
+# wait for it because the monitor output may interact with it in such a
+# way that _timed_wait_for cannot read it. However, once the block job is
+# done, we know that the "Formatting..." message must have appeared
+# already, so the output is still deterministic.)
+silent=y _send_qemu_cmd $h "drive_backup disk ${TEST_IMG}.copy" "(qemu)"
+silent=y qemu_cmd_repeat=20 _send_qemu_cmd $h "info block-jobs" "No active jobs"
_send_qemu_cmd $h "info block-jobs" "No active jobs"
_send_qemu_cmd $h 'quit' ""