diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/135 b/tests/qemu-iotests/135
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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Test VPC open of image with large Max Table Entries value.
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2015 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=jcody@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 vpc
+_supported_proto generic
+_supported_os Linux
+
+_use_sample_img afl5.img.bz2
+
+echo
+echo "=== Verify image open and failure ===="
+$QEMU_IMG info "$TEST_IMG" 2>&1| _filter_testdir
+
+# success, all done
+echo "*** done"
+rm -f $seq.full
+status=0
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/135.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/135.out
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+QA output created by 135
+
+=== Verify image open and failure ====
+qemu-img: Could not open 'TEST_DIR/afl5.img': Max Table Entries too large (1073741825)
+*** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/group b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
index 6206765aac..c430b6c234 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/group
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
@@ -133,3 +133,4 @@
 131 rw auto quick
 132 rw auto quick
 134 rw auto quick
+135 rw auto
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