diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/060 b/tests/qemu-iotests/060
index dc5a517673e2c3fc05f19bd6f18414cb2343b59e..66a8fa4aea5e3c316b07cbdd221c7344a94dc2d4 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/060
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/060
@@ -242,6 +242,13 @@ poke_file "$TEST_IMG" "$(($l2_offset+8))" "\x80\x00\x00\x00\x00\x06\x2a\x00"
 # Should emit two error messages
 $QEMU_IO -c "discard 0 64k" -c "read 64k 64k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
 
+echo
+echo "=== Testing empty refcount table ==="
+echo
+_make_test_img 64M
+poke_file "$TEST_IMG" "$rt_offset"        "\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"
+$QEMU_IO -c "write 0 64k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
 echo
 echo "=== Testing empty refcount table with valid L1 and L2 tables ==="
 echo
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/060.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/060.out
index 98f314c16d569e3174ad713b8ea2b0f29c67b5f3..cfd78f87a9ac926e0205e5d9a462c7b7018433ce 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/060.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/060.out
@@ -182,6 +182,12 @@ discard 65536/65536 bytes at offset 0
 64 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
 read failed: Input/output error
 
+=== Testing empty refcount table ===
+
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
+qcow2: Marking image as corrupt: Preventing invalid write on metadata (overlaps with refcount table); further corruption events will be suppressed
+write failed: Input/output error
+
 === Testing empty refcount table with valid L1 and L2 tables ===
 
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864