diff --git a/tests/docker/common.rc b/tests/docker/common.rc
index 7951555e3f384a6f37176309d7751a27074a0b80..046f8a59210fd6dcaeffbfec426be49f8eabb8a4 100755
--- a/tests/docker/common.rc
+++ b/tests/docker/common.rc
@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ build_qemu()
                  $@"
     echo "Configure options:"
     echo $config_opts
-    $QEMU_SRC/configure $config_opts && make $MAKEFLAGS
+    $QEMU_SRC/configure $config_opts || \
+        { cat config.log && test_fail "Failed to run 'configure'"; }
+    make $MAKEFLAGS
 }
 
 test_fail()
diff --git a/tests/docker/dockerfiles/fedora.docker b/tests/docker/dockerfiles/fedora.docker
index a00004319e415e9c54f3ecdd544fe052022d9c4f..b706f42405d0aa7f3cef9031e1b9ebbe11301f65 100644
--- a/tests/docker/dockerfiles/fedora.docker
+++ b/tests/docker/dockerfiles/fedora.docker
@@ -1,9 +1,16 @@
 FROM fedora:27
 ENV PACKAGES \
     ccache gettext git tar PyYAML sparse flex bison python3 bzip2 hostname \
-    glib2-devel pixman-devel zlib-devel SDL-devel libfdt-devel \
-    gcc gcc-c++ llvm clang make perl which bc findutils libaio-devel \
-    nettle-devel libasan libubsan \
+    gcc gcc-c++ llvm clang make perl which bc findutils glib2-devel \
+    libaio-devel pixman-devel zlib-devel libfdt-devel libasan libubsan \
+    bluez-libs-devel brlapi-devel bzip2-devel \
+    device-mapper-multipath-devel glusterfs-api-devel gnutls-devel \
+    gtk3-devel libattr-devel libcap-devel libcap-ng-devel libcurl-devel \
+    libjpeg-devel libpng-devel librbd-devel libssh2-devel libusbx-devel \
+    libxml2-devel lzo-devel ncurses-devel nettle-devel nss-devel \
+    numactl-devel SDL2-devel snappy-devel spice-server-devel \
+    systemtap-sdt-devel usbredir-devel virglrenderer-devel vte3-devel \
+    xen-devel \
     mingw32-pixman mingw32-glib2 mingw32-gmp mingw32-SDL mingw32-pkg-config \
     mingw32-gtk2 mingw32-gtk3 mingw32-gnutls mingw32-nettle mingw32-libtasn1 \
     mingw32-libjpeg-turbo mingw32-libpng mingw32-curl mingw32-libssh2 \
diff --git a/tests/docker/run b/tests/docker/run
index 9dd362bb98366ef7b28deaf177d2066419bef919..7aebf4b5698c7cf527e49d4eeea9701c3d6574b3 100755
--- a/tests/docker/run
+++ b/tests/docker/run
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ export TEST_DIR=/tmp/qemu-test
 mkdir -p $TEST_DIR/{src,build,install}
 
 # Extract the source tarballs
-tar -C $TEST_DIR/src -xf $BASE/qemu.tar || prep_fail "Failed to untar source"
+tar -C $TEST_DIR/src -xf $BASE/qemu.tar || { echo "Failed to untar source"; exit 2; }
 if test -f $TEST_DIR/src/Makefile; then
     export FEATURES="$FEATURES dtc"
 fi
diff --git a/tests/vm/basevm.py b/tests/vm/basevm.py
index 686d88decf370ce223aa4a9383d47309ff99397a..3a2d508c354a6d540bca72a4e3f48d118e098fb9 100755
--- a/tests/vm/basevm.py
+++ b/tests/vm/basevm.py
@@ -107,10 +107,7 @@ class BaseVM(object):
         assert not isinstance(cmd, str)
         ssh_cmd += ["%s@127.0.0.1" % user] + list(cmd)
         logging.debug("ssh_cmd: %s", " ".join(ssh_cmd))
-        r = subprocess.call(ssh_cmd,
-                            stdin=sys.stdin if interactive else self._devnull,
-                            stdout=sys.stdout if interactive else self._stdout,
-                            stderr=sys.stderr if interactive else self._stderr)
+        r = subprocess.call(ssh_cmd)
         if check and r != 0:
             raise Exception("SSH command failed: %s" % cmd)
         return r