diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/100 b/tests/qemu-iotests/100
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..9124aba760
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/100
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Test simple read/write using plain bdrv_read/bdrv_write
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2014 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=stefanha@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 generic
+_supported_proto generic
+_supported_os Linux
+
+
+size=128M
+
+echo
+echo "== Single request =="
+_make_test_img $size
+$QEMU_IO -c "multiwrite 0 4k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+echo
+echo "== verify pattern =="
+$QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0xcd 0 4k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0 4k 4k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+echo
+echo "== Sequential requests =="
+_make_test_img $size
+$QEMU_IO -c "multiwrite 0 4k ; 4k 4k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+echo
+echo "== verify pattern =="
+$QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0xcd 0 4k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0xce 4k 4k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0 8k 4k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+echo
+echo "== Superset overlapping requests =="
+_make_test_img $size
+$QEMU_IO -c "multiwrite 0 4k ; 1k 2k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+echo
+echo "== verify pattern =="
+# Order of overlapping in-flight requests is not guaranteed so we cannot verify
+# [1k, 3k) since it could have either pattern 0xcd or 0xce.
+$QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0xcd 0 1k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0xcd 3k 1k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0 4k 4k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+echo
+echo "== Subset overlapping requests =="
+_make_test_img $size
+$QEMU_IO -c "multiwrite 1k 2k ; 0k 4k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+echo
+echo "== verify pattern =="
+# Order of overlapping in-flight requests is not guaranteed so we cannot verify
+# [1k, 3k) since it could have either pattern 0xcd or 0xce.
+$QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0xce 0 1k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0xce 3k 1k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0 4k 4k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+echo
+echo "== Head overlapping requests =="
+_make_test_img $size
+$QEMU_IO -c "multiwrite 0k 2k ; 0k 4k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+echo
+echo "== verify pattern =="
+# Order of overlapping in-flight requests is not guaranteed so we cannot verify
+# [0k, 2k) since it could have either pattern 0xcd or 0xce.
+$QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0xce 2k 2k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0 4k 4k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+echo
+echo "== Tail overlapping requests =="
+_make_test_img $size
+$QEMU_IO -c "multiwrite 2k 2k ; 0k 4k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+echo
+echo "== verify pattern =="
+# Order of overlapping in-flight requests is not guaranteed so we cannot verify
+# [2k, 4k) since it could have either pattern 0xcd or 0xce.
+$QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0xce 0k 2k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0 4k 4k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+echo
+echo "== Disjoint requests =="
+_make_test_img $size
+$QEMU_IO -c "multiwrite 0 4k ; 64k 4k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+echo
+echo "== verify pattern =="
+$QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0xcd 0 4k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0 4k 60k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0xce 64k 4k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0 68k 4k" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+# success, all done
+echo "*** done"
+rm -f $seq.full
+status=0
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/100.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/100.out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2d6e9f0a7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/100.out
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+QA output created by 100
+
+== Single request ==
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=134217728 
+wrote 4096/4096 bytes at offset 0
+4 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+== verify pattern ==
+read 4096/4096 bytes at offset 0
+4 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 4096/4096 bytes at offset 4096
+4 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+== Sequential requests ==
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=134217728 
+wrote 8192/8192 bytes at offset 0
+8 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+== verify pattern ==
+read 4096/4096 bytes at offset 0
+4 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 4096/4096 bytes at offset 4096
+4 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 4096/4096 bytes at offset 8192
+4 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+== Superset overlapping requests ==
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=134217728 
+wrote 6144/6144 bytes at offset 0
+6 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+== verify pattern ==
+read 1024/1024 bytes at offset 0
+1 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 1024/1024 bytes at offset 3072
+1 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 4096/4096 bytes at offset 4096
+4 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+== Subset overlapping requests ==
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=134217728 
+wrote 6144/6144 bytes at offset 1024
+6 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+== verify pattern ==
+read 1024/1024 bytes at offset 0
+1 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 1024/1024 bytes at offset 3072
+1 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 4096/4096 bytes at offset 4096
+4 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+== Head overlapping requests ==
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=134217728 
+wrote 6144/6144 bytes at offset 0
+6 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+== verify pattern ==
+read 2048/2048 bytes at offset 2048
+2 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 4096/4096 bytes at offset 4096
+4 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+== Tail overlapping requests ==
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=134217728 
+wrote 6144/6144 bytes at offset 2048
+6 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+== verify pattern ==
+read 2048/2048 bytes at offset 0
+2 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 4096/4096 bytes at offset 4096
+4 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+== Disjoint requests ==
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=134217728 
+wrote 8192/8192 bytes at offset 0
+8 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+== verify pattern ==
+read 4096/4096 bytes at offset 0
+4 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 61440/61440 bytes at offset 4096
+60 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 4096/4096 bytes at offset 65536
+4 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 4096/4096 bytes at offset 69632
+4 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+*** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/group b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
index 2803d68d62..0920b28db4 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/group
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
@@ -101,5 +101,6 @@
 092 rw auto quick
 095 rw auto quick
 099 rw auto quick
+100 rw auto quick
 101 rw auto quick
 103 rw auto quick