diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/211 b/tests/qemu-iotests/211
index 1edec26517..b45f886d23 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/211
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/211
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env python
 #
 # Test VDI and file image creation
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2018 Red Hat, Inc.
 #
+# Creator/Owner: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
+#
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
@@ -18,229 +20,154 @@
 # along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 #
 
-# creator
-owner=kwolf@redhat.com
-
-seq=`basename $0`
-echo "QA output created by $seq"
-
-here=`pwd`
-status=1	# failure is the default!
-
-# get standard environment, filters and checks
-. ./common.rc
-. ./common.filter
-
-_supported_fmt vdi
-_supported_proto file
-_supported_os Linux
-
-function do_run_qemu()
-{
-    echo Testing: "$@"
-    $QEMU -nographic -qmp stdio -serial none "$@"
-    echo
-}
-
-function run_qemu()
-{
-    do_run_qemu "$@" 2>&1 | _filter_testdir | _filter_qmp \
-                          | _filter_qemu | _filter_imgfmt \
-                          | _filter_actual_image_size
-}
-
-echo
-echo "=== Successful image creation (defaults) ==="
-echo
-
-size=$((128 * 1024 * 1024))
-
-run_qemu <<EOF
-{ "execute": "qmp_capabilities" }
-{ "execute": "x-blockdev-create",
-  "arguments": {
-      "driver": "file",
-      "filename": "$TEST_IMG",
-      "size": 0
-  }
-}
-{ "execute": "blockdev-add",
-  "arguments": {
-      "driver": "file",
-      "node-name": "imgfile",
-      "filename": "$TEST_IMG"
-  }
-}
-{ "execute": "x-blockdev-create",
-  "arguments": {
-      "driver": "$IMGFMT",
-      "file": "imgfile",
-      "size": $size
-  }
-}
-{ "execute": "quit" }
-EOF
-
-_img_info --format-specific | _filter_img_info --format-specific
-$QEMU_IMG map --output=json "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_img_map
-
-echo
-echo "=== Successful image creation (explicit defaults) ==="
-echo
-
-# Choose a different size to show that we got a new image
-size=$((64 * 1024 * 1024))
-
-run_qemu <<EOF
-{ "execute": "qmp_capabilities" }
-{ "execute": "x-blockdev-create",
-  "arguments": {
-      "driver": "file",
-      "filename": "$TEST_IMG",
-      "size": 0
-  }
-}
-{ "execute": "x-blockdev-create",
-  "arguments": {
-      "driver": "$IMGFMT",
-      "file": {
-          "driver": "file",
-          "filename": "$TEST_IMG"
-      },
-      "size": $size,
-      "preallocation": "off"
-  }
-}
-{ "execute": "quit" }
-EOF
-
-_img_info --format-specific | _filter_img_info --format-specific
-$QEMU_IMG map --output=json "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_img_map
-
-echo
-echo "=== Successful image creation (with non-default options) ==="
-echo
-
-# Choose a different size to show that we got a new image
-size=$((32 * 1024 * 1024))
-
-run_qemu <<EOF
-{ "execute": "qmp_capabilities" }
-{ "execute": "x-blockdev-create",
-  "arguments": {
-      "driver": "file",
-      "filename": "$TEST_IMG",
-      "size": 0
-  }
-}
-{ "execute": "x-blockdev-create",
-  "arguments": {
-      "driver": "$IMGFMT",
-      "file": {
-          "driver": "file",
-          "filename": "$TEST_IMG"
-      },
-      "size": $size,
-      "preallocation": "metadata"
-  }
-}
-{ "execute": "quit" }
-EOF
-
-_img_info --format-specific | _filter_img_info --format-specific
-$QEMU_IMG map --output=json "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_img_map
-
-echo
-echo "=== Invalid BlockdevRef ==="
-echo
-
-run_qemu <<EOF
-{ "execute": "qmp_capabilities" }
-{ "execute": "x-blockdev-create",
-  "arguments": {
-      "driver": "$IMGFMT",
-      "file": "this doesn't exist",
-      "size": $size
-  }
-}
-{ "execute": "quit" }
-EOF
-
-echo
-echo "=== Zero size ==="
-echo
-
-run_qemu -blockdev driver=file,filename="$TEST_IMG",node-name=node0 <<EOF
-{ "execute": "qmp_capabilities" }
-{ "execute": "x-blockdev-create",
-  "arguments": {
-      "driver": "$IMGFMT",
-      "file": "node0",
-      "size": 0
-  }
-}
-{ "execute": "quit" }
-EOF
-
-_img_info | _filter_img_info
-
-echo
-echo "=== Maximum size ==="
-echo
-
-run_qemu -blockdev driver=file,filename="$TEST_IMG",node-name=node0 <<EOF
-{ "execute": "qmp_capabilities" }
-{ "execute": "x-blockdev-create",
-  "arguments": {
-      "driver": "$IMGFMT",
-      "file": "node0",
-      "size": 562949819203584
-  }
-}
-{ "execute": "quit" }
-EOF
-
-_img_info | _filter_img_info
-
-echo
-echo "=== Invalid sizes ==="
-echo
-
-# TODO Negative image sizes aren't handled correctly, but this is a problem
-# with QAPI's implementation of the 'size' type and affects other commands as
-# well. Once this is fixed, we may want to add a test case here.
-
-# 1. 2^64 - 512
-# 2. 2^63 = 8 EB (qemu-img enforces image sizes less than this)
-# 3. 0x1fffff8000001 (one byte more than maximum image size for VDI)
-
-run_qemu -blockdev driver=file,filename="$TEST_IMG",node-name=node0 <<EOF
-{ "execute": "qmp_capabilities" }
-{ "execute": "x-blockdev-create",
-  "arguments": {
-      "driver": "$IMGFMT",
-      "file": "node0",
-      "size": 18446744073709551104
-  }
-}
-{ "execute": "x-blockdev-create",
-  "arguments": {
-      "driver": "$IMGFMT",
-      "file": "node0",
-      "size": 9223372036854775808
-  }
-}
-{ "execute": "x-blockdev-create",
-  "arguments": {
-      "driver": "$IMGFMT",
-      "file": "node0",
-      "size": 562949819203585
-  }
-}
-{ "execute": "quit" }
-EOF
-
-# success, all done
-echo "*** done"
-rm -f $seq.full
-status=0
+import iotests
+from iotests import imgfmt
+
+iotests.verify_image_format(supported_fmts=['vdi'])
+iotests.verify_protocol(supported=['file'])
+
+def blockdev_create(vm, options):
+    result = vm.qmp_log('x-blockdev-create', job_id='job0', options=options)
+
+    if 'return' in result:
+        assert result['return'] == {}
+        vm.run_job('job0')
+    iotests.log("")
+
+with iotests.FilePath('t.vdi') as disk_path, \
+     iotests.VM() as vm:
+
+    #
+    # Successful image creation (defaults)
+    #
+    iotests.log("=== Successful image creation (defaults) ===")
+    iotests.log("")
+
+    size = 128 * 1024 * 1024
+
+    vm.launch()
+    blockdev_create(vm, { 'driver': 'file',
+                          'filename': disk_path,
+                          'size': 0 })
+
+    vm.qmp_log('blockdev-add', driver='file', filename=disk_path,
+               node_name='imgfile')
+
+    blockdev_create(vm, { 'driver': imgfmt,
+                          'file': 'imgfile',
+                          'size': size })
+    vm.shutdown()
+
+    iotests.img_info_log(disk_path)
+    iotests.log(iotests.qemu_img_pipe('map', '--output=json', disk_path))
+
+    #
+    # Successful image creation (explicit defaults)
+    #
+    iotests.log("=== Successful image creation (explicit defaults) ===")
+    iotests.log("")
+
+    size = 64 * 1024 * 1024
+
+    vm.launch()
+    blockdev_create(vm, { 'driver': 'file',
+                          'filename': disk_path,
+                          'size': 0 })
+    blockdev_create(vm, { 'driver': imgfmt,
+                          'file': {
+                              'driver': 'file',
+                              'filename': disk_path,
+                          },
+                          'size': size,
+                          'preallocation': 'off' })
+    vm.shutdown()
+
+    iotests.img_info_log(disk_path)
+    iotests.log(iotests.qemu_img_pipe('map', '--output=json', disk_path))
+
+    #
+    # Successful image creation (with non-default options)
+    #
+    iotests.log("=== Successful image creation (with non-default options) ===")
+    iotests.log("")
+
+    size = 32 * 1024 * 1024
+
+    vm.launch()
+    blockdev_create(vm, { 'driver': 'file',
+                          'filename': disk_path,
+                          'size': 0 })
+    blockdev_create(vm, { 'driver': imgfmt,
+                          'file': {
+                              'driver': 'file',
+                              'filename': disk_path,
+                          },
+                          'size': size,
+                          'preallocation': 'metadata' })
+    vm.shutdown()
+
+    iotests.img_info_log(disk_path)
+    iotests.log(iotests.qemu_img_pipe('map', '--output=json', disk_path))
+
+    #
+    # Invalid BlockdevRef
+    #
+    iotests.log("=== Invalid BlockdevRef ===")
+    iotests.log("")
+
+    vm.launch()
+    blockdev_create(vm, { 'driver': imgfmt,
+                          'file': "this doesn't exist",
+                          'size': size })
+    vm.shutdown()
+
+    #
+    # Zero size
+    #
+    iotests.log("=== Zero size ===")
+    iotests.log("")
+
+    vm.add_blockdev('driver=file,filename=%s,node-name=node0' % (disk_path))
+    vm.launch()
+    blockdev_create(vm, { 'driver': imgfmt,
+                          'file': 'node0',
+                          'size': 0 })
+    vm.shutdown()
+
+    iotests.img_info_log(disk_path)
+
+    #
+    # Maximum size
+    #
+    iotests.log("=== Maximum size ===")
+    iotests.log("")
+
+    vm.launch()
+    blockdev_create(vm, { 'driver': imgfmt,
+                          'file': 'node0',
+                          'size': 562949819203584 })
+    vm.shutdown()
+
+    iotests.img_info_log(disk_path)
+
+    #
+    # Invalid sizes
+    #
+
+    # TODO Negative image sizes aren't handled correctly, but this is a problem
+    # with QAPI's implementation of the 'size' type and affects other commands
+    # as well. Once this is fixed, we may want to add a test case here.
+
+    # 1. 2^64 - 512
+    # 2. 2^63 = 8 EB (qemu-img enforces image sizes less than this)
+    # 3. 0x1fffff8000001 (one byte more than maximum image size for VDI)
+
+    iotests.log("=== Invalid sizes ===")
+    iotests.log("")
+
+    vm.launch()
+    for size in [ 18446744073709551104, 9223372036854775808, 562949819203585 ]:
+        blockdev_create(vm, { 'driver': imgfmt,
+                              'file': 'node0',
+                              'size': size })
+    vm.shutdown()
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/211.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/211.out
index 3247bbaa64..2bf1c4a920 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/211.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/211.out
@@ -1,97 +1,112 @@
-QA output created by 211
-
 === Successful image creation (defaults) ===
 
-Testing:
-QMP_VERSION
-{"return": {}}
-{"return": {}}
-{"return": {}}
-{"return": {}}
-{"return": {}}
-{"timestamp": {"seconds":  TIMESTAMP, "microseconds":  TIMESTAMP}, "event": "SHUTDOWN", "data": {"guest": false}}
+{'execute': 'x-blockdev-create', 'arguments': {'job_id': 'job0', 'options': {'size': 0, 'driver': 'file', 'filename': 'TEST_DIR/PID-t.vdi'}}}
+{u'return': {}}
+{'execute': 'job-dismiss', 'arguments': {'id': 'job0'}}
+{u'return': {}}
+
+{'execute': 'blockdev-add', 'arguments': {'node_name': 'imgfile', 'driver': 'file', 'filename': 'TEST_DIR/PID-t.vdi'}}
+{u'return': {}}
+{'execute': 'x-blockdev-create', 'arguments': {'job_id': 'job0', 'options': {'driver': 'vdi', 'file': 'imgfile', 'size': 134217728}}}
+{u'return': {}}
+{'execute': 'job-dismiss', 'arguments': {'id': 'job0'}}
+{u'return': {}}
 
-image: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT
+image: TEST_IMG
 file format: IMGFMT
 virtual size: 128M (134217728 bytes)
+cluster_size: 1048576
+
 [{ "start": 0, "length": 134217728, "depth": 0, "zero": true, "data": false}]
 
 === Successful image creation (explicit defaults) ===
 
-Testing:
-QMP_VERSION
-{"return": {}}
-{"return": {}}
-{"return": {}}
-{"return": {}}
-{"timestamp": {"seconds":  TIMESTAMP, "microseconds":  TIMESTAMP}, "event": "SHUTDOWN", "data": {"guest": false}}
+{'execute': 'x-blockdev-create', 'arguments': {'job_id': 'job0', 'options': {'size': 0, 'driver': 'file', 'filename': 'TEST_DIR/PID-t.vdi'}}}
+{u'return': {}}
+{'execute': 'job-dismiss', 'arguments': {'id': 'job0'}}
+{u'return': {}}
 
-image: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT
+{'execute': 'x-blockdev-create', 'arguments': {'job_id': 'job0', 'options': {'preallocation': 'off', 'driver': 'vdi', 'file': {'driver': 'file', 'filename': 'TEST_DIR/PID-t.vdi'}, 'size': 67108864}}}
+{u'return': {}}
+{'execute': 'job-dismiss', 'arguments': {'id': 'job0'}}
+{u'return': {}}
+
+image: TEST_IMG
 file format: IMGFMT
 virtual size: 64M (67108864 bytes)
+cluster_size: 1048576
+
 [{ "start": 0, "length": 67108864, "depth": 0, "zero": true, "data": false}]
 
 === Successful image creation (with non-default options) ===
 
-Testing:
-QMP_VERSION
-{"return": {}}
-{"return": {}}
-{"return": {}}
-{"return": {}}
-{"timestamp": {"seconds":  TIMESTAMP, "microseconds":  TIMESTAMP}, "event": "SHUTDOWN", "data": {"guest": false}}
+{'execute': 'x-blockdev-create', 'arguments': {'job_id': 'job0', 'options': {'size': 0, 'driver': 'file', 'filename': 'TEST_DIR/PID-t.vdi'}}}
+{u'return': {}}
+{'execute': 'job-dismiss', 'arguments': {'id': 'job0'}}
+{u'return': {}}
 
-image: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT
+{'execute': 'x-blockdev-create', 'arguments': {'job_id': 'job0', 'options': {'preallocation': 'metadata', 'driver': 'vdi', 'file': {'driver': 'file', 'filename': 'TEST_DIR/PID-t.vdi'}, 'size': 33554432}}}
+{u'return': {}}
+{'execute': 'job-dismiss', 'arguments': {'id': 'job0'}}
+{u'return': {}}
+
+image: TEST_IMG
 file format: IMGFMT
 virtual size: 32M (33554432 bytes)
-[{ "start": 0, "length": 3072, "depth": 0, "zero": false, "data": true, "offset": OFFSET},
-{ "start": 3072, "length": 33551360, "depth": 0, "zero": true, "data": true, "offset": OFFSET}]
+cluster_size: 1048576
 
-=== Invalid BlockdevRef ===
+[{ "start": 0, "length": 3072, "depth": 0, "zero": false, "data": true, "offset": 1024},
+{ "start": 3072, "length": 33551360, "depth": 0, "zero": true, "data": true, "offset": 4096}]
 
-Testing:
-QMP_VERSION
-{"return": {}}
-{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Cannot find device=this doesn't exist nor node_name=this doesn't exist"}}
-{"return": {}}
-{"timestamp": {"seconds":  TIMESTAMP, "microseconds":  TIMESTAMP}, "event": "SHUTDOWN", "data": {"guest": false}}
+=== Invalid BlockdevRef ===
 
+{'execute': 'x-blockdev-create', 'arguments': {'job_id': 'job0', 'options': {'driver': 'vdi', 'file': "this doesn't exist", 'size': 33554432}}}
+{u'return': {}}
+Job failed: Cannot find device=this doesn't exist nor node_name=this doesn't exist
+{'execute': 'job-dismiss', 'arguments': {'id': 'job0'}}
+{u'return': {}}
 
 === Zero size ===
 
-Testing: -blockdev driver=file,filename=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT,node-name=node0
-QMP_VERSION
-{"return": {}}
-{"return": {}}
-{"return": {}}
-{"timestamp": {"seconds":  TIMESTAMP, "microseconds":  TIMESTAMP}, "event": "SHUTDOWN", "data": {"guest": false}}
+{'execute': 'x-blockdev-create', 'arguments': {'job_id': 'job0', 'options': {'driver': 'vdi', 'file': 'node0', 'size': 0}}}
+{u'return': {}}
+{'execute': 'job-dismiss', 'arguments': {'id': 'job0'}}
+{u'return': {}}
 
-image: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT
+image: TEST_IMG
 file format: IMGFMT
 virtual size: 0 (0 bytes)
+cluster_size: 1048576
 
 === Maximum size ===
 
-Testing: -blockdev driver=file,filename=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT,node-name=node0
-QMP_VERSION
-{"return": {}}
-{"return": {}}
-{"return": {}}
-{"timestamp": {"seconds":  TIMESTAMP, "microseconds":  TIMESTAMP}, "event": "SHUTDOWN", "data": {"guest": false}}
+{'execute': 'x-blockdev-create', 'arguments': {'job_id': 'job0', 'options': {'driver': 'vdi', 'file': 'node0', 'size': 562949819203584}}}
+{u'return': {}}
+{'execute': 'job-dismiss', 'arguments': {'id': 'job0'}}
+{u'return': {}}
 
-image: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT
+image: TEST_IMG
 file format: IMGFMT
 virtual size: 512T (562949819203584 bytes)
+cluster_size: 1048576
 
 === Invalid sizes ===
 
-Testing: -blockdev driver=file,filename=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT,node-name=node0
-QMP_VERSION
-{"return": {}}
-{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Unsupported VDI image size (size is 0xfffffffffffffe00, max supported is 0x1fffff8000000)"}}
-{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Unsupported VDI image size (size is 0x8000000000000000, max supported is 0x1fffff8000000)"}}
-{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Unsupported VDI image size (size is 0x1fffff8000001, max supported is 0x1fffff8000000)"}}
-{"return": {}}
-{"timestamp": {"seconds":  TIMESTAMP, "microseconds":  TIMESTAMP}, "event": "SHUTDOWN", "data": {"guest": false}}
+{'execute': 'x-blockdev-create', 'arguments': {'job_id': 'job0', 'options': {'driver': 'vdi', 'file': 'node0', 'size': 18446744073709551104L}}}
+{u'return': {}}
+Job failed: Unsupported VDI image size (size is 0xfffffffffffffe00, max supported is 0x1fffff8000000)
+{'execute': 'job-dismiss', 'arguments': {'id': 'job0'}}
+{u'return': {}}
+
+{'execute': 'x-blockdev-create', 'arguments': {'job_id': 'job0', 'options': {'driver': 'vdi', 'file': 'node0', 'size': 9223372036854775808L}}}
+{u'return': {}}
+Job failed: Unsupported VDI image size (size is 0x8000000000000000, max supported is 0x1fffff8000000)
+{'execute': 'job-dismiss', 'arguments': {'id': 'job0'}}
+{u'return': {}}
+
+{'execute': 'x-blockdev-create', 'arguments': {'job_id': 'job0', 'options': {'driver': 'vdi', 'file': 'node0', 'size': 562949819203585}}}
+{u'return': {}}
+Job failed: Unsupported VDI image size (size is 0x1fffff8000001, max supported is 0x1fffff8000000)
+{'execute': 'job-dismiss', 'arguments': {'id': 'job0'}}
+{u'return': {}}
 
-*** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/group b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
index a1d04ce367..4182bccccc 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/group
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
@@ -209,9 +209,9 @@
 208 rw auto quick
 209 rw auto quick
 210 rw auto
+211 rw auto quick
 # TODO The following commented out tests need to be reworked to work
 # with the x-blockdev-create job
-#211 rw auto quick
 #212 rw auto quick
 #213 rw auto quick
 214 rw auto
