diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/174 b/tests/qemu-iotests/174
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..c1c20a1a57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/174
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Test that qemu-io fail with non-zero exit code
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2017 Nir Soffer <nirsof@gmail.com>
+#
+# 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=nirsof@gmail.com
+
+seq=`basename $0`
+echo "QA output created by $seq"
+
+here=`pwd`
+status=1	# failure is the default!
+
+_cleanup()
+{
+	_cleanup_test_img
+}
+trap "_cleanup; exit \$status" 0 1 2 3 15
+
+# get standard environment, filters and checks
+. ./common.rc
+. ./common.filter
+
+_unsupported_fmt raw
+
+
+size=256K
+IMGFMT=raw IMGOPTS= _make_test_img $size | _filter_imgfmt
+
+echo
+echo "== reading wrong format should fail =="
+$QEMU_IO -f $IMGFMT -c "read 0 $size" "$TEST_IMG" 2>/dev/null
+test $? -eq 1 || _fail "did not fail"
+
+echo
+echo "== reading missing file should fail =="
+$QEMU_IO -c "read 0 $size" "$TEST_DIR/missing" 2>/dev/null
+test $? -eq 1 || _fail "did not fail"
+
+# success, all done
+echo "*** done"
+rm -f $seq.full
+status=0
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/174.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/174.out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a06d23792e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/174.out
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+QA output created by 174
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=262144
+
+== reading wrong format should fail ==
+
+== reading missing file should fail ==
+*** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/group b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
index 5a93ba9af9..985b9a6a36 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/group
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
@@ -166,3 +166,4 @@
 171 rw auto quick
 172 auto
 173 rw auto
+174 auto