diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/utils/qemu/QemuImg.java b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/utils/qemu/QemuImg.java
index 1fec561dc890..51b13a8c9a61 100644
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/utils/qemu/QemuImg.java
+++ b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/utils/qemu/QemuImg.java
@@ -927,7 +927,10 @@ public boolean supportsImageFormat(QemuImg.PhysicalDiskFormat format) {
     }
 
     protected static boolean helpSupportsImageFormat(String text, QemuImg.PhysicalDiskFormat format) {
-        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("Supported\\sformats:[a-zA-Z0-9-_\\s]*?\\b" + format + "\\b", CASE_INSENSITIVE);
+        // QEMU >= 10.1.0 changed the qemu-img --help header from
+        // "Supported formats:" to "Supported image formats:", so the word
+        // "image" must be treated as optional here.
+        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("Supported\\s(image\\s)?formats:[a-zA-Z0-9-_\\s]*?\\b" + format + "\\b", CASE_INSENSITIVE);
         return pattern.matcher(text).find();
     }
 
diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/test/java/org/apache/cloudstack/utils/qemu/QemuImgTest.java b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/test/java/org/apache/cloudstack/utils/qemu/QemuImgTest.java
index 5a0274257764..15f6785c1fd4 100644
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/test/java/org/apache/cloudstack/utils/qemu/QemuImgTest.java
+++ b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/test/java/org/apache/cloudstack/utils/qemu/QemuImgTest.java
@@ -390,6 +390,21 @@ public void testHelpSupportsImageFormat() throws QemuImgException, LibvirtExcept
         Assert.assertFalse("should not support http", QemuImg.helpSupportsImageFormat(partialHelp, PhysicalDiskFormat.SHEEPDOG));
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testHelpSupportsImageFormatQemu101Header() throws QemuImgException, LibvirtException {
+        // qemu-img 10.1.0 (e.g. RHEL 9.8: qemu-kvm-10.1.0-17.el9_8.3) changed the
+        // help header from "Supported formats:" to "Supported image formats:"
+        String help = "Supported image formats:\n" +
+                "  blkdebug blklogwrites blkverify compress copy-before-write copy-on-read\n" +
+                "  file ftp ftps host_cdrom host_device http https io_uring luks nbd null-aio\n" +
+                "  null-co nvme nvme-io_uring preallocate qcow2 quorum raw rbd\n" +
+                "  snapshot-access throttle vdi vhdx virtio-blk-vfio-pci\n" +
+                "  virtio-blk-vhost-user virtio-blk-vhost-vdpa vmdk vpc\n";
+        Assert.assertTrue("should support luks", QemuImg.helpSupportsImageFormat(help, PhysicalDiskFormat.LUKS));
+        Assert.assertTrue("should support qcow2", QemuImg.helpSupportsImageFormat(help, PhysicalDiskFormat.QCOW2));
+        Assert.assertFalse("should not support sheepdog", QemuImg.helpSupportsImageFormat(help, PhysicalDiskFormat.SHEEPDOG));
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void testCheckAndRepair() throws LibvirtException {
         String filename = "/tmp/" + UUID.randomUUID() + ".qcow2";