diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/117 b/tests/qemu-iotests/117
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..969750d137
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/117
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Test case for shared BDS between backend trees
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2016 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
+. ./common.qemu
+
+_supported_fmt qcow2
+_supported_proto file
+_supported_os Linux
+
+_make_test_img 64k
+
+_launch_qemu
+
+_send_qemu_cmd $QEMU_HANDLE \
+    "{ 'execute': 'qmp_capabilities' }" \
+    'return'
+
+_send_qemu_cmd $QEMU_HANDLE \
+    "{ 'execute': 'blockdev-add',
+       'arguments': { 'options': { 'id': 'protocol',
+                                   'driver': 'file',
+                                   'filename': '$TEST_IMG' } } }" \
+    'return'
+
+_send_qemu_cmd $QEMU_HANDLE \
+    "{ 'execute': 'blockdev-add',
+       'arguments': { 'options': { 'id': 'format',
+                                   'driver': '$IMGFMT',
+                                   'file': 'protocol' } } }" \
+    'return'
+
+_send_qemu_cmd $QEMU_HANDLE \
+    "{ 'execute': 'human-monitor-command',
+       'arguments': { 'command-line': 'qemu-io format \"write -P 42 0 64k\"' } }" \
+    'return'
+
+_send_qemu_cmd $QEMU_HANDLE \
+    "{ 'execute': 'quit' }" \
+    'return'
+
+wait=1 _cleanup_qemu
+
+_check_test_img
+
+$QEMU_IO -c 'read -P 42 0 64k' "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+# success, all done
+echo '*** done'
+rm -f $seq.full
+status=0
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/117.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/117.out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f52dc1a357
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/117.out
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+QA output created by 117
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=65536
+{"return": {}}
+{"return": {}}
+{"return": {}}
+wrote 65536/65536 bytes at offset 0
+64 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+{"return": ""}
+{"return": {}}
+{"timestamp": {"seconds":  TIMESTAMP, "microseconds":  TIMESTAMP}, "event": "SHUTDOWN"}
+No errors were found on the image.
+read 65536/65536 bytes at offset 0
+64 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 ff1ff0d06b..e89f076ea7 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/group
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@
 114 rw auto quick
 115 rw auto
 116 rw auto quick
+117 rw auto
 118 rw auto
 119 rw auto quick
 120 rw auto quick