diff --git a/tests/qemublocktest.c b/tests/qemublocktest.c
index 09fef8f2a9..eae1ca8ee3 100644
--- a/tests/qemublocktest.c
+++ b/tests/qemublocktest.c
@@ -479,6 +479,8 @@ mymain(void)
     TEST_DISK_TO_JSON("network-qcow2-backing-chain-cache-unsafe");
     TEST_DISK_TO_JSON("dir-fat-cache");
 
+    TEST_DISK_TO_JSON("block-raw-noopts");
+
  cleanup:
     virHashFree(diskxmljsondata.schema);
     qemuTestDriverFree(&driver);
diff --git a/tests/qemublocktestdata/xml2json/block-raw-noopts.json b/tests/qemublocktestdata/xml2json/block-raw-noopts.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..25bf77d5aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemublocktestdata/xml2json/block-raw-noopts.json
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{
+  "node-name": "0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDE",
+  "read-only": false,
+  "driver": "raw",
+  "file": {
+    "driver": "host_device",
+    "filename": "/dev/blah",
+    "node-name": "0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDE",
+    "read-only": false,
+    "discard": "unmap"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/tests/qemublocktestdata/xml2json/block-raw-noopts.xml b/tests/qemublocktestdata/xml2json/block-raw-noopts.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2f319d26d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemublocktestdata/xml2json/block-raw-noopts.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<disk device='disk' type='block'>
+  <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
+  <source dev='/dev/blah'>
+    <privateData>
+      <nodenames>
+        <nodename type='storage' name='0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDE'/>
+        <nodename type='format' name='0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDE'/>
+      </nodenames>
+    </privateData>
+  </source>
+  <target dev='vda'/>
+</disk>