diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/069 b/tests/qemu-iotests/069
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3042803a8177b612301bdf6cd88a99f26feb8467
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/069
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Test case for deleting a backing file
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2013 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=mreitz@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 cow qed qcow qcow2 vmdk
+_supported_proto generic
+_supported_os Linux
+
+IMG_SIZE=128K
+
+echo
+echo "=== Creating an image with a backing file and deleting that file ==="
+echo
+TEST_IMG="$TEST_IMG.base" _make_test_img $IMG_SIZE
+_make_test_img -b "$TEST_IMG.base" $IMG_SIZE
+rm -f "$TEST_IMG.base"
+# Just open the image and close it right again (this should print an error message)
+$QEMU_IO -c quit "$TEST_IMG" 2>&1 | _filter_testdir | _filter_imgfmt
+
+# success, all done
+echo "*** done"
+rm -f $seq.full
+status=0
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/069.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/069.out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..364881429cc4670552eb86ab01208da65d8e0adf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/069.out
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+QA output created by 069
+
+=== Creating an image with a backing file and deleting that file ===
+
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base', fmt=IMGFMT size=131072 
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=131072 backing_file='TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base' 
+qemu-io: can't open device TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT: Could not open file: No such file or directory
+*** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/group b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
index 3ca9cba2e4e5d499ce1ad701dccb2c32421ef587..c57ff35843460f8ba3a622396150965a3f9c0d30 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/group
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
@@ -74,3 +74,4 @@
 066 rw auto
 067 rw auto
 068 rw auto
+069 rw auto