diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/059 b/tests/qemu-iotests/059
index 6a27ac978b7b..4926645e5ef3 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/059
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/059
@@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ echo
 echo "=== Testing monolithicFlat with zeroed_grain ==="
 IMGOPTS="subformat=monolithicFlat,zeroed_grain=on" _make_test_img 2G
 
+echo
+echo "=== Testing version 3 ==="
+_use_sample_img iotest-version3.vmdk.bz2
+_img_info
+
 # success, all done
 echo "*** done"
 rm -f $seq.full
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/059.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/059.out
index 2ded8a950a4e..0aadd569d03a 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/059.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/059.out
@@ -25,4 +25,9 @@ virtual size: 2.0G (2147483648 bytes)
 === Testing monolithicFlat with zeroed_grain ===
 qemu-img: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT: Flat image can't enable zeroed grain
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=2147483648
+
+=== Testing version 3 ===
+image: TEST_DIR/iotest-version3.IMGFMT
+file format: IMGFMT
+virtual size: 1.0G (1073741824 bytes)
 *** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/sample_images/iotest-version3.vmdk.bz2 b/tests/qemu-iotests/sample_images/iotest-version3.vmdk.bz2
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..30abf217e72d
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