diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/075 b/tests/qemu-iotests/075
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/075
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# cloop format input validation tests
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2013 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=stefanha@redhat.com
+
+seq=`basename $0`
+echo "QA output created by $seq"
+
+here=`pwd`
+tmp=/tmp/$$
+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
+
+_supported_fmt cloop
+_supported_proto generic
+_supported_os Linux
+
+echo
+echo "== check that the first sector can be read =="
+_use_sample_img simple-pattern.cloop.bz2
+$QEMU_IO -c "read 0 512" $TEST_IMG 2>&1 | _filter_qemu_io | _filter_testdir
+
+# success, all done
+echo "*** done"
+rm -f $seq.full
+status=0
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/075.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/075.out
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+QA output created by 075
+
+== check that the first sector can be read ==
+read 512/512 bytes at offset 0
+512 bytes, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+*** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/group b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
index ee09ebc98e..633e82d795 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/group
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@
 072 rw auto quick
 073 rw auto quick
 074 rw auto quick
+075 rw auto
 077 rw auto quick
 079 rw auto
 081 rw auto
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/sample_images/simple-pattern.cloop.bz2 b/tests/qemu-iotests/sample_images/simple-pattern.cloop.bz2
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