diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/059 b/tests/qemu-iotests/059
index b03429dd01..d2b3f9e8b1 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/059
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/059
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ poke_file "$TEST_IMG" "$capacity_offset" "\xff\xff\xff\xff"
 poke_file "$TEST_IMG" "$grain_table_size_offset" "\x01\x00\x00\x00"
 { $QEMU_IO -c "read 0 512" $TEST_IMG; } 2>&1 | _filter_qemu_io | _filter_testdir
 
+echo "=== Testing monolithicFlat creation and opening ==="
+echo
+IMGOPTS="subformat=monolithicFlat" _make_test_img 2G
+$QEMU_IMG info $TEST_IMG | _filter_testdir
+
 # success, all done
 echo "*** done"
 rm -f $seq.full
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/059.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/059.out
index 2146a1a3d4..9159dbec60 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/059.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/059.out
@@ -17,4 +17,11 @@ Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
 L1 size too big
 qemu-io: can't open device TEST_DIR/t.vmdk: Could not open 'TEST_DIR/t.vmdk': Wrong medium type
 no file open, try 'help open'
+=== Testing monolithicFlat creation and opening ===
+
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=2147483648
+image: TEST_DIR/t.vmdk
+file format: vmdk
+virtual size: 2.0G (2147483648 bytes)
+disk size: 4.0K
 *** done