diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/297 b/tests/qemu-iotests/297
index bc3a0ceb2aa..b8101e6024a 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/297
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/297
@@ -73,19 +73,7 @@ def run_linters():
sys.stdout.flush()
env['MYPYPATH'] = env['PYTHONPATH']
- p = subprocess.run(('mypy',
- '--warn-unused-configs',
- '--disallow-subclassing-any',
- '--disallow-any-generics',
- '--disallow-incomplete-defs',
- '--disallow-untyped-decorators',
- '--no-implicit-optional',
- '--warn-redundant-casts',
- '--warn-unused-ignores',
- '--no-implicit-reexport',
- '--namespace-packages',
- '--scripts-are-modules',
- *files),
+ p = subprocess.run(('mypy', *files),
env=env,
check=False,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/mypy.ini b/tests/qemu-iotests/mypy.ini
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4c0339f5589
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/mypy.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+[mypy]
+disallow_any_generics = True
+disallow_incomplete_defs = True
+disallow_subclassing_any = True
+disallow_untyped_decorators = True
+implicit_reexport = False