diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
index 767790bfc06f5407a83d863ce8dd9e58de5edc38..27926c7670eb4389ae56954903dbf6d0b1a24183 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
@@ -2586,6 +2586,8 @@ qemuDomainObjPrivateXMLFormatBlockjobIterator(void *payload,
                 virBufferAsprintf(&childBuf, "<top node='%s'/>\n", job->data.commit.top->nodeformat);
             if (job->data.commit.topparent)
                 virBufferAsprintf(&childBuf, "<topparent node='%s'/>\n", job->data.commit.topparent->nodeformat);
+            if (job->data.commit.deleteCommittedImages)
+                virBufferAddLit(&childBuf, "<deleteCommittedImages/>\n");
             break;
 
         case QEMU_BLOCKJOB_TYPE_CREATE:
@@ -3185,6 +3187,8 @@ qemuDomainObjPrivateXMLParseBlockjobDataSpecific(qemuBlockJobDataPtr job,
                                                          "string(./base/@node)",
                                                          &job->data.commit.base,
                                                          ctxt);
+            if (virXPathNode("./deleteCommittedImages", ctxt))
+                job->data.commit.deleteCommittedImages = true;
             if (!job->data.commit.top ||
                 !job->data.commit.base)
                 goto broken;
diff --git a/tests/qemustatusxml2xmldata/blockjob-blockdev-in.xml b/tests/qemustatusxml2xmldata/blockjob-blockdev-in.xml
index 67ab099bd99fd59a75b9d86359adf9acfa9f4ba5..b5d62fd4aba8b537e0c8a18ef581306f4636a016 100644
--- a/tests/qemustatusxml2xmldata/blockjob-blockdev-in.xml
+++ b/tests/qemustatusxml2xmldata/blockjob-blockdev-in.xml
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@
       <disk dst='vde'/>
       <base node='libvirt-19-format'/>
       <top node='libvirt-17-format'/>
+      <deleteCommittedImages/>
     </blockjob>
     <blockjob name='create-libvirt-1337-storage' type='create' state='running'>
       <create mode='storage'/>