diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/070 b/tests/qemu-iotests/070
index 41bf1007016e925586e66f1c183ad64b8d46fc88..f84d2cb4ed3a1addd7d7add2c2300b2a076c920c 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/070
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/070
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ _use_sample_img iotest-dirtylog-10G-4M.vhdx.bz2
 
 echo
 echo "=== Verify open image read-only fails, due to dirty log ==="
-$QEMU_IO -r -c "read -pP 0xa5 0 18M" "$TEST_IMG" 2>&1 | grep -o "Permission denied"
+$QEMU_IO -r -c "read -pP 0xa5 0 18M" "$TEST_IMG" 2>&1 | _filter_testdir \
+                                                      | _filter_qemu_io
 
 echo "=== Verify open image replays log  ==="
 $QEMU_IO  -c "read -pP 0xa5 0 18M" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/070.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/070.out
index 9db8ff2650d3582be496bcb772f2221c6d15bdd9..0352adced4f99e79d962cb1e9fe055657204c651 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/070.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/070.out
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 QA output created by 070
 
 === Verify open image read-only fails, due to dirty log ===
-Permission denied
+qemu-io: can't open device TEST_DIR/iotest-dirtylog-10G-4M.vhdx: VHDX image file 'TEST_DIR/iotest-dirtylog-10G-4M.vhdx' opened read-only, but contains a log that needs to be replayed.  To replay the log, execute:
+ qemu-img check -r all 'TEST_DIR/iotest-dirtylog-10G-4M.vhdx': Operation not permitted
+ no file open, try 'help open'
 === Verify open image replays log  ===
 read 18874368/18874368 bytes at offset 0
 18 MiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)