diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 48361139797b97bab85a2874539a8b0b7fdb02e4..57375128327617001197cab8f4a85d145162ce57 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Thu Aug 24 11:03:42 EDT 2006 Daniel Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
+
+	* tests/Makefile.am: Added a 'valgrind' target which simply
+	calls 'make check', but wrapping execution with valgrind to
+	detect any errors
+
 Thu Aug 24 10:04:02 EDT 2006 Daniel Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
 
 	* tests/xml2sexpr.c, tests/sexpr2xml.c: New tests suites for
diff --git a/tests/Makefile.am b/tests/Makefile.am
index 505ac30e2bf9d697ebc2df876c15345b7bea0aa9..480af533a3537955c0591f868b98ec63ffbf9d25 100644
--- a/tests/Makefile.am
+++ b/tests/Makefile.am
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ noinst_PROGRAMS = xmlrpctest xml2sexprtest sexpr2xmltest
 
 TESTS = xml2sexprtest sexpr2xmltest
 
+valgrind:
+	$(MAKE) check TESTS_ENVIRONMENT="valgrind --quiet"
+
 # Note: xmlrpc.[c|h] is not in libvirt yet
 xmlrpctest_SOURCES = \
 	xmlrpctest.c \