diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/089 b/tests/qemu-iotests/089
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..ef476010c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/089
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Test case for support of JSON filenames
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2014 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
+
+_supported_fmt qcow2
+_supported_proto file
+_supported_os Linux
+
+# Using an image filename containing quotation marks will render the JSON data
+# below invalid. In that case, we have little choice but simply not to run this
+# test.
+case $TEST_IMG in
+    *'"'*)
+        _notrun "image filename may not contain quotation marks"
+        ;;
+esac
+
+IMG_SIZE=64M
+
+# Taken from test 072
+echo
+echo "=== Testing nested image formats ==="
+echo
+
+TEST_IMG="$TEST_IMG.base" _make_test_img $IMG_SIZE
+
+$QEMU_IO -c 'write -P 42 0 512' -c 'write -P 23 512 512' \
+         -c 'write -P 66 1024 512' "$TEST_IMG.base" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+$QEMU_IMG convert -f raw -O $IMGFMT "$TEST_IMG.base" "$TEST_IMG"
+
+$QEMU_IO -c 'read -P 42 0 512' -c 'read -P 23 512 512' \
+         -c 'read -P 66 1024 512' "json:{
+    \"driver\": \"$IMGFMT\",
+    \"file\": {
+        \"driver\": \"$IMGFMT\",
+        \"file\": {
+            \"filename\": \"$TEST_IMG\"
+        }
+    }
+}" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+# This should fail (see test 072)
+$QEMU_IO -c 'read -P 42 0 512' "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+
+# Taken from test 071
+echo
+echo "=== Testing blkdebug ==="
+echo
+
+_make_test_img $IMG_SIZE
+
+$QEMU_IO -c 'write -P 42 0x38000 512' "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+# The "image.filename" part tests whether "a": { "b": "c" } and "a.b": "c" do
+# the same (which they should).
+$QEMU_IO -c 'read -P 42 0x38000 512' "json:{
+    \"driver\": \"$IMGFMT\",
+    \"file\": {
+        \"driver\": \"blkdebug\",
+        \"inject-error\": [{
+            \"event\": \"l2_load\"
+        }],
+        \"image.filename\": \"$TEST_IMG\"
+    }
+}" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+
+echo
+echo "=== Testing qemu-img info output ==="
+echo
+
+$QEMU_IMG info "json:{\"driver\":\"qcow2\",\"file.filename\":\"$TEST_IMG\"}" \
+    | _filter_testdir | _filter_imgfmt
+
+
+echo
+echo "=== Testing option merging ==="
+echo
+
+# Both options given directly and those given in the filename should be used
+$QEMU_IO -c "open -o driver=qcow2 json:{\"file.filename\":\"$TEST_IMG\"}" \
+         -c "info" 2>&1 | _filter_testdir | _filter_imgfmt
+
+# Options given directly should be prioritized over those given in the filename
+$QEMU_IO -c "open -o driver=qcow2 json:{\"driver\":\"raw\",\"file.filename\":\"$TEST_IMG\"}" \
+         -c "info" 2>&1 | _filter_testdir | _filter_imgfmt
+
+
+# success, all done
+echo "*** done"
+rm -f $seq.full
+status=0
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/089.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/089.out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d6cf7835d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/089.out
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+QA output created by 089
+
+=== Testing nested image formats ===
+
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864 
+wrote 512/512 bytes at offset 0
+512 bytes, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+wrote 512/512 bytes at offset 512
+512 bytes, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+wrote 512/512 bytes at offset 1024
+512 bytes, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 512/512 bytes at offset 0
+512 bytes, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 512/512 bytes at offset 512
+512 bytes, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 512/512 bytes at offset 1024
+512 bytes, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+Pattern verification failed at offset 0, 512 bytes
+read 512/512 bytes at offset 0
+512 bytes, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
+=== Testing blkdebug ===
+
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864 
+wrote 512/512 bytes at offset 229376
+512 bytes, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read failed: Input/output error
+
+=== Testing qemu-img info output ===
+
+image: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT
+file format: IMGFMT
+virtual size: 64M (67108864 bytes)
+disk size: 324K
+cluster_size: 65536
+Format specific information:
+    compat: 1.1
+    lazy refcounts: false
+
+=== Testing option merging ===
+
+format name: IMGFMT
+cluster size: 64 KiB
+vm state offset: 512 MiB
+Format specific information:
+    compat: 1.1
+    lazy refcounts: false
+format name: IMGFMT
+cluster size: 64 KiB
+vm state offset: 512 MiB
+Format specific information:
+    compat: 1.1
+    lazy refcounts: false
+*** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/group b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
index cd3e4d2c27..2988cfde99 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/group
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
@@ -95,5 +95,6 @@
 086 rw auto quick
 087 rw auto
 088 rw auto
+089 rw auto quick
 090 rw auto quick
 091 rw auto