diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/028 b/tests/qemu-iotests/028
index 01f495912f..71301ec6e5 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/028
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/028
@@ -110,7 +110,11 @@ echo
 qemu_comm_method="monitor"
 _launch_qemu -drive file="${TEST_IMG}",cache=${CACHEMODE},id=disk
 h=$QEMU_HANDLE
-QEMU_COMM_TIMEOUT=1
+if [ "${VALGRIND_QEMU}" == "y" ]; then
+    QEMU_COMM_TIMEOUT=7
+else
+    QEMU_COMM_TIMEOUT=1
+fi
 
 # Silence output since it contains the disk image path and QEMU's readline
 # character echoing makes it very hard to filter the output. Plus, there
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/183 b/tests/qemu-iotests/183
index fbe5a99beb..04fb344d08 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/183
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/183
@@ -94,8 +94,15 @@ if echo "$reply" | grep "compiled without old-style" > /dev/null; then
     _notrun "migrate -b support not compiled in"
 fi
 
-QEMU_COMM_TIMEOUT=0.1 qemu_cmd_repeat=50 silent=yes \
+timeout_comm=$QEMU_COMM_TIMEOUT
+if [ "${VALGRIND_QEMU}" == "y" ]; then
+    QEMU_COMM_TIMEOUT=4
+else
+    QEMU_COMM_TIMEOUT=0.1
+fi
+qemu_cmd_repeat=50 silent=yes \
     _send_qemu_cmd $src "{ 'execute': 'query-migrate' }" '"status": "completed"'
+QEMU_COMM_TIMEOUT=$timeout_comm
 _send_qemu_cmd $src "{ 'execute': 'query-status' }" "return"
 
 echo
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/192 b/tests/qemu-iotests/192
index 6193257764..034432272f 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/192
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/192
@@ -60,7 +60,11 @@ fi
 qemu_comm_method="monitor"
 _launch_qemu -drive $DRIVE_ARG -incoming defer
 h=$QEMU_HANDLE
-QEMU_COMM_TIMEOUT=1
+if [ "${VALGRIND_QEMU}" == "y" ]; then
+    QEMU_COMM_TIMEOUT=7
+else
+    QEMU_COMM_TIMEOUT=1
+fi
 
 _send_qemu_cmd $h "nbd_server_start unix:$TEST_DIR/nbd" "(qemu)"
 _send_qemu_cmd $h "nbd_server_add -w drive0" "(qemu)"