diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-serial-tcp-tlsx509-chardev-verify.args b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-serial-tcp-tlsx509-chardev-verify.args
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f521e334fcb3e9f03ad352f0847cbf29e695a243
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-serial-tcp-tlsx509-chardev-verify.args
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+LC_ALL=C \
+PATH=/bin \
+HOME=/home/test \
+USER=test \
+LOGNAME=test \
+QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none \
+/usr/bin/qemu \
+-name QEMUGuest1 \
+-S \
+-M pc \
+-m 214 \
+-smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 \
+-uuid c7a5fdbd-edaf-9455-926a-d65c16db1809 \
+-nographic \
+-nodefconfig \
+-nodefaults \
+-chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/tmp/lib/domain--1-QEMUGuest1/monitor.sock,\
+server,nowait \
+-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=readline \
+-no-acpi \
+-boot c \
+-usb \
+-drive file=/dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest1,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0 \
+-device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 \
+-chardev udp,id=charserial0,host=127.0.0.1,port=2222,localaddr=127.0.0.1,\
+localport=1111 \
+-device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 \
+-object tls-creds-x509,id=objserial1_tls0,dir=/etc/pki/libvirt-chardev,\
+endpoint=client,verify-peer=yes \
+-chardev socket,id=charserial1,host=127.0.0.1,port=5555,\
+tls-creds=objserial1_tls0 \
+-device isa-serial,chardev=charserial1,id=serial1 \
+-device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-serial-tcp-tlsx509-chardev-verify.xml b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-serial-tcp-tlsx509-chardev-verify.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1618b029d9c4768fcf6d2463dd06824827b8b8e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-serial-tcp-tlsx509-chardev-verify.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+<domain type='qemu'>
+  <name>QEMUGuest1</name>
+  <uuid>c7a5fdbd-edaf-9455-926a-d65c16db1809</uuid>
+  <memory unit='KiB'>219136</memory>
+  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>219136</currentMemory>
+  <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
+  <os>
+    <type arch='i686' machine='pc'>hvm</type>
+    <boot dev='hd'/>
+  </os>
+  <clock offset='utc'/>
+  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
+  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
+  <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
+  <devices>
+    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu</emulator>
+    <disk type='block' device='disk'>
+      <source dev='/dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest1'/>
+      <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
+      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
+    </disk>
+    <controller type='usb' index='0'/>
+    <controller type='ide' index='0'/>
+    <serial type='udp'>
+      <source mode='bind' host='127.0.0.1' service='1111'/>
+      <source mode='connect' host='127.0.0.1' service='2222'/>
+      <target port='0'/>
+    </serial>
+    <serial type='tcp'>
+      <source mode='connect' host='127.0.0.1' service='5555'/>
+      <protocol type='raw'/>
+      <target port='0'/>
+    </serial>
+    <console type='udp'>
+      <source mode='bind' host='127.0.0.1' service='1111'/>
+      <source mode='connect' host='127.0.0.1' service='2222'/>
+      <target type='serial' port='0'/>
+    </console>
+    <memballoon model='virtio'/>
+  </devices>
+</domain>
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
index b1cc4d8cd5a747388a2189f22b4c4d846911915d..3e9f825c28499be69c6d327b2d6607a8c964ff97 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
@@ -1162,6 +1162,11 @@ mymain(void)
     DO_TEST("serial-tcp-tlsx509-chardev",
             QEMU_CAPS_CHARDEV, QEMU_CAPS_NODEFCONFIG,
             QEMU_CAPS_OBJECT_TLS_CREDS_X509);
+    driver.config->chardevTLSx509verify = 1;
+    DO_TEST("serial-tcp-tlsx509-chardev-verify",
+            QEMU_CAPS_CHARDEV, QEMU_CAPS_NODEFCONFIG,
+            QEMU_CAPS_OBJECT_TLS_CREDS_X509);
+    driver.config->chardevTLSx509verify = 0;
     driver.config->chardevTLS = 0;
     VIR_FREE(driver.config->chardevTLSx509certdir);
     DO_TEST("serial-many-chardev",