diff --git a/tests/Makefile b/tests/Makefile
index 74b29dc..571ad42 100644
--- a/tests/Makefile
+++ b/tests/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
+export SRC_PATH
+
 CHECKS = check-qdict check-qfloat check-qint check-qstring check-qlist
 CHECKS += check-qjson test-qmp-output-visitor test-qmp-input-visitor
 CHECKS += test-string-input-visitor test-string-output-visitor test-coroutine
+CHECKS += $(SRC_PATH)/tests/qemu-iotests-quick.sh
 
 check-qint.o check-qstring.o check-qdict.o check-qlist.o check-qfloat.o check-qjson.o test-coroutine.o: $(GENERATED_HEADERS)
 
@@ -42,6 +45,8 @@
 test-qmp-commands.o: $(addprefix $(qapi-dir)/, test-qapi-types.c test-qapi-types.h test-qapi-visit.c test-qapi-visit.h test-qmp-marshal.c test-qmp-commands.h) $(qapi-obj-y)
 test-qmp-commands: test-qmp-commands.o $(qobject-obj-y) $(qapi-obj-y) $(tools-obj-y) $(qapi-dir)/test-qapi-visit.o $(qapi-dir)/test-qapi-types.o $(qapi-dir)/test-qmp-marshal.o module.o
 
+$(SRC_PATH)/tests/qemu-iotests-quick.sh: qemu-img qemu-io
+
 .PHONY: check
 check: $(CHECKS)
 	$(call quiet-command, gtester $(CHECKS), "  CHECK")
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests-quick.sh b/tests/qemu-iotests-quick.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..cf90de0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests-quick.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# We don't know which of the system emulator binaries there is (or if there is
+# any at all), so the 'quick' group doesn't contain any tests that require
+# running qemu proper. Assign a fake binary name so that qemu-iotests doesn't
+# complain about the missing binary.
+export QEMU_PROG="this_should_be_unused"
+
+export QEMU_IMG_PROG="$(pwd)/qemu-img"
+export QEMU_IO_PROG="$(pwd)/qemu-io"
+
+cd $SRC_PATH/tests/qemu-iotests
+
+ret=0
+./check -T -nocache -qcow2 -g quick || ret=1
+
+exit $ret