diff --git a/test/composertest.py b/test/composertest.py
index f8a49dae..3c577772 100644
--- a/test/composertest.py
+++ b/test/composertest.py
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ class ComposerTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(r.returncode, 0)
 
     def tearDown(self):
+        if os.environ.get('TEST_ATTACHMENTS'):
+            self.machine.download_dir('/var/log/tests', os.environ.get('TEST_ATTACHMENTS'))
+
         # Peek into internal data structure, because there's no way to get the
         # TestResult at this point. `errors` is a list of tuples (method, error)
         errors = list(e[1] for e in self._outcome.errors if e[1])
diff --git a/tests/cli/lib/lib.sh b/tests/cli/lib/lib.sh
index 6dc58f24..c4c46d68 100755
--- a/tests/cli/lib/lib.sh
+++ b/tests/cli/lib/lib.sh
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ boot_image() {
     QEMU_BOOT=$1
     TIMEOUT=$2
     rlRun -t -c "$QEMU -m 2048 $QEMU_BOOT -nographic -monitor none \
-                 -net user,id=nic0,hostfwd=tcp::$SSH_PORT-:22 -net nic &"
+                 -net user,id=nic0,hostfwd=tcp::$SSH_PORT-:22 -net nic \
+                 -chardev null,id=log0,mux=on,logfile=/var/log$TEST/qemu.log,logappend=on \
+                 -serial chardev:log0 &"
     # wait for ssh to become ready (yes, http is the wrong protocol, but it returns the header)
     tries=0
     until curl -sS -m 15 "http://localhost:$SSH_PORT/" | grep 'OpenSSH'; do
@@ -107,6 +109,10 @@ wait_for_compose() {
             rlLogInfo "Waiting for compose to finish ..."
         done;
         check_compose_status "$UUID"
+
+        rlRun -t -c "mkdir -p /var/log/$TEST"
+        rlRun -t -c "$CLI compose logs $UUID"
+        rlRun -t -c "mv $UUID-logs.tar /var/log/$TEST"
     else
         rlFail "Compose UUID is empty!"
     fi
diff --git a/tests/test_cli.sh b/tests/test_cli.sh
index ddf0516b..a253de12 100755
--- a/tests/test_cli.sh
+++ b/tests/test_cli.sh
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ until curl -m 15 --unix-socket /run/weldr/api.socket http://localhost:4000/api/s
     echo "DEBUG: Waiting for backend API to become ready before testing ..."
 done;
 
-
 export BEAKERLIB_JOURNAL=0
 if [ -z "$*" ]; then
     # invoke cli/ tests which can be executed without special preparation