diff --git a/travis-ci/vmtest/build_pahole.sh b/travis-ci/vmtest/build_pahole.sh
index 043c8b8..159dcb6 100755
--- a/travis-ci/vmtest/build_pahole.sh
+++ b/travis-ci/vmtest/build_pahole.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-set -eux
+set -eu
+
+source $(cd $(dirname $0) && pwd)/helpers.sh
+
+travis_fold start build_pahole "Building pahole"
 
 CWD=$(pwd)
 REPO_PATH=$1
@@ -23,3 +27,4 @@ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:-}:/usr/local/lib
 ldd $(which pahole)
 pahole --version
 
+travis_fold end build_pahole
diff --git a/travis-ci/vmtest/build_selftests.sh b/travis-ci/vmtest/build_selftests.sh
index bd3e104..7f688e5 100755
--- a/travis-ci/vmtest/build_selftests.sh
+++ b/travis-ci/vmtest/build_selftests.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-set -euxo pipefail
+set -euo pipefail
+
+source $(cd $(dirname $0) && pwd)/helpers.sh
+
+travis_fold start prepare_selftests "Building selftests"
 
 LLVM_VER=12
 LIBBPF_PATH="${REPO_ROOT}"
@@ -33,3 +37,5 @@ rm selftests/bpf/.gitignore
 git add selftests
 
 git add "${VMTEST_ROOT}/configs/blacklist"
+
+travis_fold end prepare_selftests
diff --git a/travis-ci/vmtest/checkout_latest_kernel.sh b/travis-ci/vmtest/checkout_latest_kernel.sh
index 5e8c03a..d199588 100755
--- a/travis-ci/vmtest/checkout_latest_kernel.sh
+++ b/travis-ci/vmtest/checkout_latest_kernel.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-set -eux
+set -eu
+
+source $(cd $(dirname $0) && pwd)/helpers.sh
 
 CWD=$(pwd)
 LIBBPF_PATH=$(pwd)
@@ -14,6 +16,9 @@ echo REPO_PATH = ${REPO_PATH}
 echo LINUX_SHA = ${LINUX_SHA}
 
 if [ ! -d "${REPO_PATH}" ]; then
+	echo
+	travis_fold start pull_kernel_srcs "Fetching kernel sources"
+
 	mkdir -p $(dirname "${REPO_PATH}")
 	cd $(dirname "${REPO_PATH}")
 	# attempt to fetch desired bpf-next repo snapshot
@@ -34,4 +39,6 @@ if [ ! -d "${REPO_PATH}" ]; then
 		fi
 		git reset --hard ${LINUX_SHA}
 	fi
+
+	travis_fold end pull_kernel_srcs
 fi
diff --git a/travis-ci/vmtest/helpers.sh b/travis-ci/vmtest/helpers.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c6be1a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/travis-ci/vmtest/helpers.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# $1 - start or end
+# $2 - fold identifier, no spaces
+# $3 - fold section description
+travis_fold() {
+	local YELLOW='\033[1;33m'
+	local NOCOLOR='\033[0m'
+	echo travis_fold:$1:$2
+	if [ ! -z "${3:-}" ]; then
+		echo -e "${YELLOW}$3${NOCOLOR}"
+	fi
+	echo
+}
diff --git a/travis-ci/vmtest/prepare_selftests.sh b/travis-ci/vmtest/prepare_selftests.sh
index 5d4692e..1c74e5c 100755
--- a/travis-ci/vmtest/prepare_selftests.sh
+++ b/travis-ci/vmtest/prepare_selftests.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-set -eux
+set -eu
+
+source $(cd $(dirname $0) && pwd)/helpers.sh
 
 REPO_PATH=$1
 
@@ -8,7 +10,11 @@ ${VMTEST_ROOT}/checkout_latest_kernel.sh ${REPO_PATH}
 cd ${REPO_PATH}
 
 if [[ "${KERNEL}" = 'LATEST' ]]; then
+	travis_fold start build_kernel "Kernel build"
+
 	cp ${VMTEST_ROOT}/configs/latest.config .config
 	make -j $((4*$(nproc))) olddefconfig all
+
+	travis_fold end build_kernel
 fi
 
diff --git a/travis-ci/vmtest/run.sh b/travis-ci/vmtest/run.sh
index df339dd..4538d1a 100755
--- a/travis-ci/vmtest/run.sh
+++ b/travis-ci/vmtest/run.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 set -uo pipefail
 trap 'exit 2' ERR
 
+source $(cd $(dirname $0) && pwd)/helpers.sh
+
 usage () {
 	USAGE_STRING="usage: $0 [-k KERNELRELEASE|-b DIR] [[-r ROOTFSVERSION] [-fo]|-I] [-Si] [-d DIR] IMG
        $0 [-k KERNELRELEASE] -l
@@ -275,6 +277,10 @@ if [[ $SKIPIMG -eq 0 && ! -v ROOTFSVERSION ]]; then
 fi
 
 echo "Kernel release: $KERNELRELEASE" >&2
+echo
+
+travis_fold start vmlinux_setup "Preparing Linux image"
+
 if (( SKIPIMG )); then
 	echo "Not extracting root filesystem" >&2
 else
@@ -366,11 +372,15 @@ else
 	sudo chmod 644 "$vmlinux"
 fi
 
+travis_fold end vmlinux_setup
+
 LIBBPF_PATH="${REPO_ROOT}" \
 	REPO_PATH="travis-ci/vmtest/bpf-next" \
 	VMTEST_ROOT="${VMTEST_ROOT}" \
 	VMLINUX_BTF=${vmlinux} ${VMTEST_ROOT}/build_selftests.sh
 
+travis_fold start vm_init "Starting virtual machine..."
+
 if (( SKIPSOURCE )); then
 	echo "Not copying source files..." >&2
 else
@@ -415,13 +425,15 @@ sudo chmod 755 "$mnt/etc/rcS.d/S50-run-tests"
 
 poweroff_script="#!/bin/sh
 
+echo travis_fold:start:shutdown
+echo -e '\033[1;33mShutdown\033[0m\n'
+
 poweroff"
 echo "${poweroff_script}" | sudo tee "$mnt/etc/rcS.d/S99-poweroff" > /dev/null
 sudo chmod 755 "$mnt/etc/rcS.d/S99-poweroff"
 
 sudo umount "$mnt"
 
-echo "Starting virtual machine..." >&2
 qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -display none -serial mon:stdio \
 	-cpu kvm64 -enable-kvm -smp "$(nproc)" -m 2G \
 	-drive file="$IMG",format=raw,index=1,media=disk,if=virtio,cache=none \
@@ -435,4 +447,7 @@ else
 	exitstatus=1
 fi
 sudo umount "$mnt"
+
+travis_fold end shutdown
+
 exit "$exitstatus"
diff --git a/travis-ci/vmtest/run_selftests.sh b/travis-ci/vmtest/run_selftests.sh
index 2e8a4c0..762cb43 100755
--- a/travis-ci/vmtest/run_selftests.sh
+++ b/travis-ci/vmtest/run_selftests.sh
@@ -1,27 +1,35 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-set -euxo pipefail
+set -euo pipefail
+
+source $(cd $(dirname $0) && pwd)/helpers.sh
 
 test_progs() {
 	if [[ "${KERNEL}" != '4.9.0' ]]; then
-		echo TEST_PROGS
+		travis_fold start test_progs "Testing test_progs"
 		./test_progs ${BLACKLIST:+-b$BLACKLIST} ${WHITELIST:+-t$WHITELIST}
+		travis_fold end test_progs
 	fi
 
-	echo TEST_PROGS-NO_ALU32
+	travis_fold start test_progs-no_alu32 "Testing test_progs-no_alu32"
 	./test_progs-no_alu32 ${BLACKLIST:+-b$BLACKLIST} ${WHITELIST:+-t$WHITELIST}
+	travis_fold end test_progs-no_alu32
 }
 
 test_maps() {
-	echo TEST_MAPS
+	travis_fold start test_maps "Testing test_maps"
 	./test_maps
+	travis_fold end test_maps
 }
 
 test_verifier() {
-	echo TEST_VERIFIER
+	travis_fold start test_verifier "Testing test_verifier"
 	./test_verifier
+	travis_fold end test_verifier
 }
 
+travis_fold end vm_init
+
 configs_path='libbpf/travis-ci/vmtest/configs'
 blacklist_path="$configs_path/blacklist/BLACKLIST-${KERNEL}"
 if [[ -s "${blacklist_path}" ]]; then
diff --git a/travis-ci/vmtest/run_vmtest.sh b/travis-ci/vmtest/run_vmtest.sh
index 4ddf458..f828dc0 100755
--- a/travis-ci/vmtest/run_vmtest.sh
+++ b/travis-ci/vmtest/run_vmtest.sh
@@ -1,20 +1,27 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-set -eux
+set -eu
+
+source $(cd $(dirname $0) && pwd)/helpers.sh
 
 VMTEST_SETUPCMD="PROJECT_NAME=${PROJECT_NAME} ./${PROJECT_NAME}/travis-ci/vmtest/run_selftests.sh"
 
 echo "KERNEL: $KERNEL"
+echo
 
 # Build latest pahole
 ${VMTEST_ROOT}/build_pahole.sh travis-ci/vmtest/pahole
 
+travis_fold start install_clang "Installing Clang/LLVM"
+
 # Install required packages
 wget -O - https://apt.llvm.org/llvm-snapshot.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
 echo "deb http://apt.llvm.org/bionic/ llvm-toolchain-bionic main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get -y install clang-12 lld-12 llvm-12
 
+travis_fold end install_clang
+
 # Build selftests (and latest kernel, if necessary)
 KERNEL="${KERNEL}" ${VMTEST_ROOT}/prepare_selftests.sh travis-ci/vmtest/bpf-next