diff --git a/cloud-hypervisor/tests/integration.rs b/cloud-hypervisor/tests/integration.rs
index 9f459267a..28a46f582 100644
--- a/cloud-hypervisor/tests/integration.rs
+++ b/cloud-hypervisor/tests/integration.rs
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ mod x86_64 {
         "jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64-custom-20241017-0-backing-zstd.qcow2";
     pub const JAMMY_IMAGE_NAME_QCOW2_BACKING_UNCOMPRESSED_FILE: &str =
         "jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64-custom-20241017-0-backing-uncompressed.qcow2";
+    pub const JAMMY_IMAGE_NAME_QCOW2_BACKING_RAW_FILE: &str =
+        "jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64-custom-20241017-0-backing-raw.qcow2";
     pub const WINDOWS_IMAGE_NAME: &str = "windows-server-2022-amd64-2.raw";
     pub const OVMF_NAME: &str = "CLOUDHV.fd";
     pub const GREP_SERIAL_IRQ_CMD: &str = "grep -c 'IO-APIC.*ttyS0' /proc/interrupts || true";
@@ -74,6 +76,8 @@ mod aarch64 {
         "jammy-server-cloudimg-arm64-custom-20220329-0-backing-zstd.qcow2";
     pub const JAMMY_IMAGE_NAME_QCOW2_BACKING_UNCOMPRESSED_FILE: &str =
         "jammy-server-cloudimg-arm64-custom-20220329-0-backing-uncompressed.qcow2";
+    pub const JAMMY_IMAGE_NAME_QCOW2_BACKING_RAW_FILE: &str =
+        "jammy-server-cloudimg-arm64-custom-20220329-0-backing-raw.qcow2";
     pub const WINDOWS_IMAGE_NAME: &str = "windows-11-iot-enterprise-aarch64.raw";
     pub const OVMF_NAME: &str = "CLOUDHV_EFI.fd";
     pub const GREP_SERIAL_IRQ_CMD: &str = "grep -c 'GICv3.*uart-pl011' /proc/interrupts || true";
@@ -3574,6 +3578,11 @@ mod common_parallel {
         );
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn test_virtio_block_qcow2_backing_raw_file() {
+        _test_virtio_block(JAMMY_IMAGE_NAME_QCOW2_BACKING_RAW_FILE, false, false, true);
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn test_virtio_block_vhd() {
         let mut workload_path = dirs::home_dir().unwrap();
diff --git a/scripts/run_integration_tests_aarch64.sh b/scripts/run_integration_tests_aarch64.sh
index c13d7b9ad..f3fee6007 100755
--- a/scripts/run_integration_tests_aarch64.sh
+++ b/scripts/run_integration_tests_aarch64.sh
@@ -100,6 +100,16 @@ update_workloads() {
         popd || exit
     fi
 
+    JAMMY_OS_QCOW_BACKING_RAW_FILE_IMAGE_NAME="jammy-server-cloudimg-arm64-custom-20220329-0-backing-raw.qcow2"
+    JAMMY_OS_QCOW_BACKING_RAW_FILE_IMAGE="$WORKLOADS_DIR/$JAMMY_OS_QCOW_BACKING_RAW_FILE_IMAGE_NAME"
+    if [ ! -f "$JAMMY_OS_QCOW_BACKING_RAW_FILE_IMAGE" ]; then
+        pushd "$WORKLOADS_DIR" || exit
+        time qemu-img create -f qcow2 \
+            -b "$JAMMY_OS_RAW_IMAGE" \
+            -F raw $JAMMY_OS_QCOW_BACKING_RAW_FILE_IMAGE_NAME
+        popd || exit
+    fi
+
     ALPINE_MINIROOTFS_URL="http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.11/releases/aarch64/alpine-minirootfs-3.11.3-aarch64.tar.gz"
     ALPINE_MINIROOTFS_TARBALL="$WORKLOADS_DIR/alpine-minirootfs-aarch64.tar.gz"
     if [ ! -f "$ALPINE_MINIROOTFS_TARBALL" ]; then
diff --git a/scripts/run_integration_tests_x86_64.sh b/scripts/run_integration_tests_x86_64.sh
index 32983672b..5eb8531d4 100755
--- a/scripts/run_integration_tests_x86_64.sh
+++ b/scripts/run_integration_tests_x86_64.sh
@@ -100,6 +100,16 @@ if [ ! -f "$JAMMY_OS_QCOW_BACKING_UNCOMPRESSED_FILE_IMAGE" ]; then
     popd || exit
 fi
 
+JAMMY_OS_QCOW_BACKING_RAW_FILE_IMAGE_NAME="jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64-custom-20241017-0-backing-raw.qcow2"
+JAMMY_OS_QCOW_BACKING_RAW_FILE_IMAGE="$WORKLOADS_DIR/$JAMMY_OS_QCOW_BACKING_RAW_FILE_IMAGE_NAME"
+if [ ! -f "$JAMMY_OS_QCOW_BACKING_RAW_FILE_IMAGE" ]; then
+    pushd "$WORKLOADS_DIR" || exit
+    time qemu-img create -f qcow2 \
+        -b "$JAMMY_OS_RAW_IMAGE" \
+        -F raw $JAMMY_OS_QCOW_BACKING_RAW_FILE_IMAGE_NAME
+    popd || exit
+fi
+
 ALPINE_MINIROOTFS_URL="http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.11/releases/x86_64/alpine-minirootfs-3.11.3-x86_64.tar.gz"
 ALPINE_MINIROOTFS_TARBALL="$WORKLOADS_DIR/alpine-minirootfs-x86_64.tar.gz"
 if [ ! -f "$ALPINE_MINIROOTFS_TARBALL" ]; then