diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/059 b/tests/qemu-iotests/059
index 50ca5ce681..0ded0c3da4 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/059
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/059
@@ -132,6 +132,11 @@ _img_info
 $QEMU_IO -c "write -P 0xa 900G 512" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
 $QEMU_IO -c "read -v 900G 1024" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
 
+echo
+echo "=== Testing afl image with a very large capacity ==="
+_use_sample_img afl9.vmdk.bz2
+_img_info
+
 # success, all done
 echo "*** done"
 rm -f $seq.full
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/059.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/059.out
index cbb0de4254..67e3cf57e4 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/059.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/059.out
@@ -2336,4 +2336,7 @@ e1000003e0:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
 e1000003f0:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
 read 1024/1024 bytes at offset 966367641600
 1 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+=== Testing afl image with a very large capacity ===
+qemu-img: Can't get size of device 'image': File too large
 *** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/sample_images/afl9.vmdk.bz2 b/tests/qemu-iotests/sample_images/afl9.vmdk.bz2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..03615d36a1
Binary files /dev/null and b/tests/qemu-iotests/sample_images/afl9.vmdk.bz2 differ