diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/006 b/tests/qemu-iotests/006
deleted file mode 100755
index 0c0cf5d32f..0000000000
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/006
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-#
-# Make sure qemu-img rejects > 127GB images for the vpc format as the format
-# doesn't support this.
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2009 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=hch@lst.de
-
-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 vpc
-_supported_proto generic
-_supported_os Linux
-
-
-echo
-echo "creating 128GB image"
-_make_test_img 128G
-
-# success, all done
-echo "*** done"
-rm -f $seq.full
-status=0
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/006.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/006.out
deleted file mode 100644
index d135841b70..0000000000
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/006.out
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-QA output created by 006
-
-creating 128GB image
-qemu-img: The image size is too large for file format 'vpc'
-Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=137438953472
-*** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/group b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
index 93a02502df..87eec393a8 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/group
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 003 rw auto
 004 rw auto quick
 005 img auto quick
-006 img auto
+# 006 was removed, do not reuse
 007 snapshot auto
 008 rw auto quick
 009 rw auto quick