diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/131 b/tests/qemu-iotests/131
index f45afa72d6..4873f40e94 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/131
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/131
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ _supported_fmt parallels
 _supported_proto file
 _supported_os Linux
 
+inuse_offset=$((0x2c))
+
 size=64M
 CLUSTER_SIZE=64k
 IMGFMT=parallels
@@ -62,6 +64,13 @@ echo == check that there is no trash after written ==
 echo == check that there is no trash before written ==
 { $QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0 0 32k" "$TEST_IMG"; } 2>&1 | _filter_qemu_io | _filter_testdir
 
+echo "== Corrupt image =="
+poke_file "$TEST_IMG" "$inuse_offset" "\x59\x6e\x6f\x74"
+{ $QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0x11 64k 64k" "$TEST_IMG"; } 2>&1 | _filter_qemu_io | _filter_testdir
+_check_test_img
+_check_test_img -r all
+{ $QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0x11 64k 64k" "$TEST_IMG"; } 2>&1 | _filter_qemu_io | _filter_testdir
+
 # success, all done
 echo "*** done"
 rm -f $seq.full
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/131.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/131.out
index 4158a2f520..021a04c812 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/131.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/131.out
@@ -21,4 +21,21 @@ read 32768/32768 bytes at offset 163840
 == check that there is no trash before written ==
 read 32768/32768 bytes at offset 0
 32 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+== Corrupt image ==
+qemu-io: can't open device TEST_DIR/t.parallels: parallels: Image was not closed correctly; cannot be opened read/write
+no file open, try 'help open'
+ERROR image was not closed correctly
+
+1 errors were found on the image.
+Data may be corrupted, or further writes to the image may corrupt it.
+Repairing image was not closed correctly
+The following inconsistencies were found and repaired:
+
+    0 leaked clusters
+    1 corruptions
+
+Double checking the fixed image now...
+No errors were found on the image.
+read 65536/65536 bytes at offset 65536
+64 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
 *** done