diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ec55ee9f..48377e4a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -50,9 +50,10 @@ test:
 # need `losetup`, which needs Docker to be in privileged mode (--privileged)
 # but even so fails in Travis CI
 test_images:
-	sudo -E ./tests/test_cli.sh tests/cli/test_compose_ext4-filesystem.sh \
+	sudo -E ./tests/test_cli.sh tests/cli/test_compose_ext4-filesystem.sh  \
 				    tests/cli/test_compose_partitioned-disk.sh \
-				    tests/cli/test_compose_tar.sh
+				    tests/cli/test_compose_tar.sh              \
+				    tests/cli/test_compose_qcow2.sh
 
 test_aws:
 	sudo -E ./tests/test_cli.sh tests/cli/test_build_and_deploy_aws.sh
diff --git a/tests/cli/test_compose_qcow2.sh b/tests/cli/test_compose_qcow2.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..011da1f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/cli/test_compose_qcow2.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Note: execute this file from the project root directory
+
+#####
+#
+# Builds qcow2 images and tests them with QEMU-KVM
+#
+#####
+
+. /usr/share/beakerlib/beakerlib.sh
+
+CLI="./src/bin/composer-cli"
+QEMU="/usr/bin/qemu-kvm"
+
+rlJournalStart
+    rlPhaseStartSetup
+        rlAssertExists $QEMU
+    rlPhaseEnd
+
+    rlPhaseStartTest "compose start"
+        rlAssertEquals "SELinux operates in enforcing mode" "$(getenforce)" "Enforcing"
+
+        TMP_DIR=`mktemp -d /tmp/composer.XXXXX`
+        SSH_KEY_DIR=`mktemp -d /tmp/composer-ssh-keys.XXXXXX`
+
+        rlRun -t -c "ssh-keygen -t rsa -N '' -f $SSH_KEY_DIR/id_rsa"
+        PUB_KEY=`cat $SSH_KEY_DIR/id_rsa.pub`
+
+        cat > $TMP_DIR/with-ssh.toml << __EOF__
+name = "with-ssh"
+description = "HTTP image with SSH"
+version = "0.0.1"
+
+[[modules]]
+name = "httpd"
+version = "*"
+
+[[packages]]
+name = "openssh-server"
+version = "*"
+
+[[customizations.user]]
+name = "root"
+key = "$PUB_KEY"
+__EOF__
+
+        rlRun -t -c "$CLI blueprints push $TMP_DIR/with-ssh.toml"
+
+        UUID=`$CLI compose start with-ssh qcow2`
+        rlAssertEquals "exit code should be zero" $? 0
+
+        UUID=`echo $UUID | cut -f 2 -d' '`
+    rlPhaseEnd
+
+    rlPhaseStartTest "compose finished"
+        if [ -n "$UUID" ]; then
+            until $CLI compose info $UUID | grep FINISHED; do
+                sleep 20
+                rlLogInfo "Waiting for compose to finish ..."
+            done;
+        else
+            rlFail "Compose UUID is empty!"
+        fi
+
+        rlRun -t -c "$CLI compose image $UUID"
+        IMAGE="$UUID-disk.qcow2"
+    rlPhaseEnd
+
+    rlPhaseStartTest "Start VM instance"
+        rlRun -t -c "$QEMU -m 2048 -boot c -hda $IMAGE -nographic \
+                           -net user,id=nic0,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22 -net nic &"
+        sleep 60
+    rlPhaseEnd
+
+    rlPhaseStartTest "Verify VM instance"
+        # verify we can login into that instance
+        rlRun -t -c "ssh -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -i $SSH_KEY_DIR/id_rsa -p 2222 root@localhost 'cat /etc/redhat-release'"
+    rlPhaseEnd
+
+    rlPhaseStartCleanup
+        rlRun -t -c "killall -9 qemu-system-$(uname -m)"
+        rlRun -t -c "$CLI compose delete $UUID"
+        rlRun -t -c "rm -rf $IMAGE $TMP_DIR $SSH_KEY_DIR"
+    rlPhaseEnd
+
+rlJournalEnd
+rlJournalPrintText