diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/038 b/tests/qemu-iotests/038
index 36125eab1e7e85eb4fddb6aa86a45226a9ef256a..90de1a73d9fbd2b6e1eb3791ec74224f9e29f73e 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/038
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/038
@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ function overlay_io()
 }
 
 overlay_io | $QEMU_IO $TEST_IMG | _filter_qemu_io |\
-	sed -e 's/bytes at offset [0-9]*/bytes at offset XXX/g'
+    sed -e 's/bytes at offset [0-9]*/bytes at offset XXX/g' \
+    -e 's/qemu-io> //g' | paste - - | sort | tr '\t' '\n'
 
 echo
 echo "== Verify image content =="
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/038.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/038.out
index 9cd0cd8771afe1e20597b696a70e93d17db11bb6..96c2f849bbc198e6f6a5cc115f823af1a16d6fec 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/038.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/038.out
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ qemu-io> wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset 16711680
 qemu-io> Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=6442450944 backing_file='TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base' 
 
 == Some concurrent requests touching the same cluster ==
-qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> qemu-io> wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset XXX
+wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset XXX
 64 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
 wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset XXX
 64 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
@@ -577,8 +577,6 @@ wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset XXX
 64 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
 wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset XXX
 64 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
-wrote 81920/81920 bytes at offset XXX
-80 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
 wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset XXX
 64 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
 wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset XXX
@@ -645,8 +643,6 @@ wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset XXX
 64 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
 wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset XXX
 64 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
-wrote 81920/81920 bytes at offset XXX
-80 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
 wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset XXX
 64 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
 wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset XXX
@@ -705,6 +701,10 @@ wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset XXX
 64 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
 wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset XXX
 64 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+wrote 81920/81920 bytes at offset XXX
+80 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+wrote 81920/81920 bytes at offset XXX
+80 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
 
 == Verify image content ==
 qemu-io> read 4096/4096 bytes at offset 2064384