diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/076 b/tests/qemu-iotests/076
index 2bb478cca4..ed2be3581e 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/076
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/076
@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ _use_sample_img parallels-v1.bz2
 poke_file "$TEST_IMG" "$tracks_offset" "\x00\x00\x00\x00"
 { $QEMU_IO -c "read 0 512" $TEST_IMG; } 2>&1 | _filter_qemu_io | _filter_testdir
 
+echo
+echo "== Read from a valid v2 image =="
+_use_sample_img parallels-v2.bz2
+{ $QEMU_IO -c "read -P 0x11 0 64k" $TEST_IMG; } 2>&1 | _filter_qemu_io | _filter_testdir
+
 # success, all done
 echo "*** done"
 rm -f $seq.full
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/076.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/076.out
index fd26f3ca32..32ade08565 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/076.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/076.out
@@ -15,4 +15,8 @@ no file open, try 'help open'
 == Zero sectors per track ==
 qemu-io: can't open device TEST_DIR/parallels-v1: Invalid image: Zero sectors per track
 no file open, try 'help open'
+
+== Read from a valid v2 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/sample_images/parallels-v2.bz2 b/tests/qemu-iotests/sample_images/parallels-v2.bz2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fd8614d061
Binary files /dev/null and b/tests/qemu-iotests/sample_images/parallels-v2.bz2 differ