diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/197 b/tests/qemu-iotests/197
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..887eb4f496
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/197
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Test case for copy-on-read into qcow2
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2017 Red Hat, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+
+# creator
+owner=eblake@redhat.com
+
+seq="$(basename $0)"
+echo "QA output created by $seq"
+
+here="$PWD"
+status=1 # failure is the default!
+
+# get standard environment, filters and checks
+. ./common.rc
+. ./common.filter
+
+TEST_WRAP="$TEST_DIR/t.wrap.qcow2"
+BLKDBG_CONF="$TEST_DIR/blkdebug.conf"
+
+# Sanity check: our use of blkdebug fails if $TEST_DIR contains spaces
+# or other problems
+case "$TEST_DIR" in
+    *[^-_a-zA-Z0-9/]*)
+        _notrun "Suspicious TEST_DIR='$TEST_DIR', cowardly refusing to run" ;;
+esac
+
+_cleanup()
+{
+    _cleanup_test_img
+    rm -f "$BLKDBG_CONF"
+}
+trap "_cleanup; exit \$status" 0 1 2 3 15
+
+# Test is supported for any backing file; but we force qcow2 for our wrapper.
+_supported_fmt generic
+_supported_proto generic
+_supported_os Linux
+# LUKS support may be possible, but it complicates things.
+_unsupported_fmt luks
+
+echo
+echo '=== Copy-on-read ==='
+echo
+
+# Prep the images
+_make_test_img 4G
+$QEMU_IO -c "write -P 55 3G 1k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+IMGPROTO=file IMGFMT=qcow2 IMGOPTS= TEST_IMG_FILE="$TEST_WRAP" \
+    _make_test_img -F "$IMGFMT" -b "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_img_create
+$QEMU_IO -f qcow2 -c "write -z -u 1M 64k" "$TEST_WRAP" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+# Ensure that a read of two clusters, but where one is already allocated,
+# does not re-write the allocated cluster
+cat > "$BLKDBG_CONF" <<EOF
+[inject-error]
+event = "cor_write"
+sector = "2048"
+EOF
+$QEMU_IO -c "open -C \
+ -o driver=blkdebug,config=$BLKDBG_CONF,image.driver=qcow2 $TEST_WRAP" \
+ -c "read -P 0 1M 128k" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+# Read the areas we want copied. A zero-length read should still be a
+# no-op.  The next read is under 2G, but aligned so that rounding to
+# clusters copies more than 2G of zeroes. The final read will pick up
+# the non-zero data in the same cluster.  Since a 2G read may exhaust
+# memory on some machines (particularly 32-bit), we skip the test if
+# that fails due to memory pressure.
+$QEMU_IO -f qcow2 -C -c "read 0 0" "$TEST_WRAP" | _filter_qemu_io
+output=$($QEMU_IO -f qcow2 -C -c "read -P 0 1k $((2*1024*1024*1024 - 512))" \
+        "$TEST_WRAP" 2>&1 | _filter_qemu_io)
+case $output in
+    *allocate*)
+        _notrun "Insufficent memory to run test" ;;
+    *) printf '%s\n' "$output" ;;
+esac
+$QEMU_IO -f qcow2 -C -c "read -P 0 $((3*1024*1024*1024 + 1024)) 1k" \
+    "$TEST_WRAP" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+# Copy-on-read is incompatible with read-only
+$QEMU_IO -f qcow2 -C -r "$TEST_WRAP" 2>&1 | _filter_testdir
+
+# Break the backing chain, and show that images are identical, and that
+# we properly copied over explicit zeros.
+$QEMU_IMG rebase -u -b "" -f qcow2 "$TEST_WRAP"
+$QEMU_IO -f qcow2 -c map "$TEST_WRAP"
+_check_test_img
+$QEMU_IMG compare -f $IMGFMT -F qcow2 "$TEST_IMG" "$TEST_WRAP"
+
+# success, all done
+echo '*** done'
+status=0
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/197.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/197.out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..52b4137d7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/197.out
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+QA output created by 197
+
+=== Copy-on-read ===
+
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=4294967296
+wrote 1024/1024 bytes at offset 3221225472
+1 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.wrap.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=4294967296 backing_file=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT backing_fmt=IMGFMT
+wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset 1048576
+64 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 131072/131072 bytes at offset 1048576
+128 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 0/0 bytes at offset 0
+0 bytes, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 2147483136/2147483136 bytes at offset 1024
+2 GiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 1024/1024 bytes at offset 3221226496
+1 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+can't open device TEST_DIR/t.wrap.qcow2: Can't use copy-on-read on read-only device
+2 GiB (0x80010000) bytes     allocated at offset 0 bytes (0x0)
+1023.938 MiB (0x3fff0000) bytes not allocated at offset 2 GiB (0x80010000)
+64 KiB (0x10000) bytes     allocated at offset 3 GiB (0xc0000000)
+1023.938 MiB (0x3fff0000) bytes not allocated at offset 3 GiB (0xc0010000)
+No errors were found on the image.
+Images are identical.
+*** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.filter b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.filter
index 9d5442ecd9..227b37e941 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.filter
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.filter
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ _filter_img_create()
     sed -e "s#$IMGPROTO:$TEST_DIR#TEST_DIR#g" \
         -e "s#$TEST_DIR#TEST_DIR#g" \
         -e "s#$IMGFMT#IMGFMT#g" \
+        -e 's#nbd:127.0.0.1:10810#TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT#g' \
         -e "s# encryption=off##g" \
         -e "s# cluster_size=[0-9]\\+##g" \
         -e "s# table_size=[0-9]\\+##g" \
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/group b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
index 595f4fd416..83da427c0a 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/group
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
@@ -192,3 +192,4 @@
 192 rw auto quick
 194 rw auto migration quick
 195 rw auto quick
+197 rw auto quick