diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/214 b/tests/qemu-iotests/214
index 0889089d81..c66e246ba2 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/214
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/214
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ echo
 # The L2 entries of the two compressed clusters are located at
 # 0x800000 and 0x800008, their original values are 0x4008000000a00000
 # and 0x4008000000a00802 (5 sectors for compressed data each).
-_make_test_img 8M -o cluster_size=2M
+_make_test_img 8M -o cluster_size=2M,compression_type=zlib
 $QEMU_IO -c "write -c -P 0x11 0 2M" -c "write -c -P 0x11 2M 2M" "$TEST_IMG" \
          2>&1 | _filter_qemu_io | _filter_testdir