diff --git a/block/dmg.c b/block/dmg.c
index ba8ec344d4..675e840ca5 100644
--- a/block/dmg.c
+++ b/block/dmg.c
@@ -254,6 +254,25 @@ static int dmg_read_mish_block(BDRVDMGState *s, DmgHeaderState *ds,
     for (i = s->n_chunks; i < s->n_chunks + chunk_count; i++) {
         s->types[i] = buff_read_uint32(buffer, offset);
         if (!dmg_is_known_block_type(s->types[i])) {
+            switch (s->types[i]) {
+            case UDBZ:
+                warn_report_once("dmg-bzip2 module is missing, accessing bzip2 "
+                                 "compressed blocks will result in I/O errors");
+                break;
+            case ULFO:
+                warn_report_once("dmg-lzfse module is missing, accessing lzfse "
+                                 "compressed blocks will result in I/O errors");
+                break;
+            case UDCM:
+            case UDLE:
+                /* Comments and last entry can be ignored without problems */
+                break;
+            default:
+                warn_report_once("Image contains chunks of unknown type %x, "
+                                 "accessing them will result in I/O errors",
+                                 s->types[i]);
+                break;
+            }
             chunk_count--;
             i--;
             offset += 40;