diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/177 b/tests/qemu-iotests/177
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..2005c174f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/177
@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Test corner cases with unusual block geometries
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2016-2017 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=eblake@redhat.com
+
+seq=`basename $0`
+echo "QA output created by $seq"
+
+here=`pwd`
+status=1	# failure is the default!
+
+_cleanup()
+{
+	_cleanup_test_img
+}
+trap "_cleanup; exit \$status" 0 1 2 3 15
+
+# get standard environment, filters and checks
+. ./common.rc
+. ./common.filter
+
+_supported_fmt qcow2
+_supported_proto file
+
+CLUSTER_SIZE=1M
+size=128M
+options=driver=blkdebug,image.driver=qcow2
+
+echo
+echo "== setting up files =="
+
+TEST_IMG="$TEST_IMG.base" _make_test_img $size
+$QEMU_IO -c "write -P 11 0 $size" "$TEST_IMG.base" | _filter_qemu_io
+_make_test_img -b "$TEST_IMG.base"
+$QEMU_IO -c "write -P 22 0 $size" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+# Limited to 64k max-transfer
+echo
+echo "== constrained alignment and max-transfer =="
+limits=align=4k,max-transfer=64k
+$QEMU_IO -c "open -o $options,$limits blkdebug::$TEST_IMG" \
+         -c "write -P 33 1000 128k" -c "read -P 33 1000 128k" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+echo
+echo "== write zero with constrained max-transfer =="
+limits=align=512,max-transfer=64k,opt-write-zero=$CLUSTER_SIZE
+$QEMU_IO -c "open -o $options,$limits blkdebug::$TEST_IMG" \
+         -c "write -z 8003584 2093056" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+# non-power-of-2 write-zero/discard alignments
+echo
+echo "== non-power-of-2 write zeroes limits =="
+
+limits=align=512,opt-write-zero=15M,max-write-zero=15M,opt-discard=15M,max-discard=15M
+$QEMU_IO -c "open -o $options,$limits blkdebug::$TEST_IMG" \
+         -c "write -z 32M 32M" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+echo
+echo "== non-power-of-2 discard limits =="
+
+limits=align=512,opt-write-zero=15M,max-write-zero=15M,opt-discard=15M,max-discard=15M
+$QEMU_IO -c "open -o $options,$limits blkdebug::$TEST_IMG" \
+         -c "discard 80000001 30M" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+echo
+echo "== verify image content =="
+
+function verify_io()
+{
+    if ($QEMU_IMG info -f "$IMGFMT" "$TEST_IMG" |
+	    grep "compat: 0.10" > /dev/null); then
+        # For v2 images, discarded clusters are read from the backing file
+        discarded=11
+    else
+        # Discarded clusters are zeroed for v3 or later
+        discarded=0
+    fi
+
+    echo read -P 22 0 1000
+    echo read -P 33 1000 128k
+    echo read -P 22 132072 7871512
+    echo read -P 0 8003584 2093056
+    echo read -P 22 10096640 23457792
+    echo read -P 0 32M 32M
+    echo read -P 22 64M 13M
+    echo read -P $discarded 77M 29M
+    echo read -P 22 106M 22M
+}
+
+verify_io | $QEMU_IO -r "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+_check_test_img
+
+# success, all done
+echo "*** done"
+status=0
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/177.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/177.out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e887542678
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/177.out
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+QA output created by 177
+
+== setting up files ==
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base', fmt=IMGFMT size=134217728
+wrote 134217728/134217728 bytes at offset 0
+128 MiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=134217728 backing_file=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base
+wrote 134217728/134217728 bytes at offset 0
+128 MiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+== constrained alignment and max-transfer ==
+wrote 131072/131072 bytes at offset 1000
+128 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 131072/131072 bytes at offset 1000
+128 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+== write zero with constrained max-transfer ==
+wrote 2093056/2093056 bytes at offset 8003584
+1.996 MiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+== non-power-of-2 write zeroes limits ==
+wrote 33554432/33554432 bytes at offset 33554432
+32 MiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+== non-power-of-2 discard limits ==
+discard 31457280/31457280 bytes at offset 80000001
+30 MiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+== verify image content ==
+read 1000/1000 bytes at offset 0
+1000 bytes, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 131072/131072 bytes at offset 1000
+128 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 7871512/7871512 bytes at offset 132072
+7.507 MiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 2093056/2093056 bytes at offset 8003584
+1.996 MiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 23457792/23457792 bytes at offset 10096640
+22.371 MiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 33554432/33554432 bytes at offset 33554432
+32 MiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 13631488/13631488 bytes at offset 67108864
+13 MiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 30408704/30408704 bytes at offset 80740352
+29 MiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 23068672/23068672 bytes at offset 111149056
+22 MiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+No errors were found on the image.
+*** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/group b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
index a4549d82b2..bb6df8f2d7 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/group
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
@@ -170,5 +170,6 @@
 174 auto
 175 auto quick
 176 rw auto backing
+177 rw auto quick
 181 rw auto migration
 182 rw auto quick