diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 32188d51f1..95be6ec59f 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ addons:
       - libvte-2.90-dev
       - sparse
       - uuid-dev
+      - gcovr
 
 # The channel name "irc.oftc.net#qemu" is encrypted against qemu/qemu
 # to prevent IRC notifications from forks. This was created using:
@@ -86,6 +87,8 @@ matrix:
       compiler: clang
     # gprof/gcov are GCC features
     - env: CONFIG="--enable-gprof --enable-gcov --disable-pie --target-list=aarch64-softmmu,arm-softmmu,i386-softmmu,mips-softmmu,mips64-softmmu,ppc64-softmmu,riscv64-softmmu,s390x-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu"
+      after_success:
+        - ${SRC_DIR}/scripts/travis/coverage-summary.sh
       compiler: gcc
     # We manually include builds which we disable "make check" for
     - env: CONFIG="--enable-debug --enable-tcg-interpreter"
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 6630d691d1..6a13f70f99 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -2166,6 +2166,7 @@ R: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
 L: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
 S: Maintained
 F: .travis.yml
+F: scripts/travis/
 F: .shippable.yml
 F: tests/docker/
 F: tests/vm/
diff --git a/scripts/travis/coverage-summary.sh b/scripts/travis/coverage-summary.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..d7086cf9ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/travis/coverage-summary.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Author: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
+#
+# Summerise the state of code coverage with gcovr and tweak the output
+# to be more sane on Travis hosts. As we expect to be executed on a
+# throw away CI instance we do spam temp files all over the shop. You
+# most likely don't want to execute this script but just call gcovr
+# directly. See also "make coverage-report"
+#
+# This code is licensed under the GPL version 2 or later.  See
+# the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+
+# first generate the coverage report
+gcovr -p -o raw-report.txt
+
+# strip the full-path and line markers
+sed s@$PWD\/@@ raw-report.txt | sed s/[0-9]\*[,-]//g > simplified.txt
+
+# reflow lines that got split
+awk '/.[ch]$/ { printf("%s", $0); next } 1' simplified.txt > rejoined.txt
+
+# columnify
+column -t rejoined.txt > final.txt
+
+# and dump, stripping out 0% coverage
+grep -v "0%" final.txt