diff --git a/test/nvmf/nvmf.sh b/test/nvmf/nvmf.sh
index 71002d9f1..5a4255215 100755
--- a/test/nvmf/nvmf.sh
+++ b/test/nvmf/nvmf.sh
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ fi
 run_test suite test/nvmf/target/nvmf_lvol.sh
 #TODO: disabled due to intermittent failures. Need to triage.
 # run_test suite test/nvmf/target/srq_overwhelm.sh
+run_test suite test/nvmf/target/nvmf_vhost.sh
 run_test suite test/nvmf/target/shutdown.sh
 run_test suite test/nvmf/target/bdev_io_wait.sh
 run_test suite test/nvmf/target/create_transport.sh
diff --git a/test/nvmf/target/nvmf_vhost.sh b/test/nvmf/target/nvmf_vhost.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..ebd6c4c92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/nvmf/target/nvmf_vhost.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -e
+testdir=$(readlink -f $(dirname $0))
+rootdir=$testdir/../../..
+source $rootdir/test/common/autotest_common.sh
+source $rootdir/test/nvmf/common.sh
+source $rootdir/test/vhost/common/common.sh
+
+MALLOC_BDEV_SIZE=128
+MALLOC_BLOCK_SIZE=512
+NVMF_SOCK="/tmp/nvmf_rpc.sock"
+NVMF_RPC="$rootdir/scripts/rpc.py -s $NVMF_SOCK"
+
+VHOST_SOCK="/tmp/vhost_rpc.sock"
+VHOST_APP="$rootdir/app/vhost/vhost -p 0 -r $VHOST_SOCK -u"
+VHOST_RPC="$rootdir/scripts/rpc.py -s $VHOST_SOCK"
+vm_image="/home/sys_sgsw/vhost_vm_image.qcow2"
+
+if [ ! -d $QEMU_PREFIX ]; then
+	echo "qemu not installed on this machine. It may be a VM. Skipping nvmf_vhost test."
+	exit 0
+fi
+
+nvmftestinit $1
+
+RDMA_IP_LIST=$(get_available_rdma_ips)
+NVMF_FIRST_TARGET_IP=$(echo "$RDMA_IP_LIST" | head -n 1)
+if [ -z $NVMF_FIRST_TARGET_IP ]; then
+	echo "no NIC for nvmf test"
+	exit 0
+fi
+
+timing_enter nvmf_vhost
+# Start Apps
+$NVMF_APP -r $NVMF_SOCK &
+nvmfpid=$!
+waitforlisten $nvmfpid $NVMF_SOCK
+
+trap "process_shm --id $NVMF_APP_SHM_ID; killprocess $nvmfpid; nvmftestfini $1; exit 1" SIGINT SIGTERM EXIT
+
+mkdir -p "$(get_vhost_dir 3)"
+
+$VHOST_APP -S "$(get_vhost_dir 3)" &
+vhostpid=$!
+waitforlisten $vhostpid $NVMF_SOCK
+
+trap "process_shm --id $NVMF_APP_SHM_ID; killprocess $nvmfpid; killprocess $vhostpid nvmftestfini $1; exit 1" SIGINT SIGTERM EXIT
+
+# Configure NVMF tgt on host machine
+malloc_bdev="$($NVMF_RPC construct_malloc_bdev $MALLOC_BDEV_SIZE $MALLOC_BLOCK_SIZE)"
+
+$NVMF_RPC nvmf_create_transport -t RDMA -u 8192 -p 4
+$NVMF_RPC nvmf_subsystem_create nqn.2016-06.io.spdk:cnode1 -a -s SPDK00000000000001
+$NVMF_RPC nvmf_subsystem_add_ns nqn.2016-06.io.spdk:cnode1 "$malloc_bdev"
+$NVMF_RPC nvmf_subsystem_add_listener nqn.2016-06.io.spdk:cnode1 -t rdma -a $NVMF_FIRST_TARGET_IP -s $NVMF_PORT
+
+# Configure VHost on host machine
+$VHOST_RPC construct_nvme_bdev -b Nvme0 -t rdma -f ipv4 -a $NVMF_FIRST_TARGET_IP -s $NVMF_PORT -n nqn.2016-06.io.spdk:cnode1
+$VHOST_RPC construct_vhost_scsi_controller naa.VhostScsi0.3
+$VHOST_RPC add_vhost_scsi_lun naa.VhostScsi0.3 0 "Nvme0n1"
+
+# start qemu based VM.
+vm_setup --os="$vm_image" --disk-type=spdk_vhost_scsi --disks="VhostScsi0"  --force=3 --vhost-num=3
+
+vm_run 3
+
+vm_wait_for_boot 300 3
+
+# Run the fio workload remotely
+vm_scp 3 $testdir/nvmf_vhost_fio.job 127.0.0.1:/root/nvmf_vhost_fio.job
+vm_ssh 3 "fio /root/nvmf_vhost_fio.job"
+vm_shutdown_all
+
+trap - SIGINT SIGTERM EXIT
+
+nvmfcleanup
+killprocess $vhostpid
+killprocess $nvmfpid
+nvmftestfini $1
+timing_exit nvmf_vhost
diff --git a/test/nvmf/target/nvmf_vhost_fio.job b/test/nvmf/target/nvmf_vhost_fio.job
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..350aa895e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/nvmf/target/nvmf_vhost_fio.job
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+[global]
+blocksize=4k-512k
+iodepth=128
+ioengine=libaio
+filename=/dev/sdb
+group_reporting
+thread
+numjobs=1
+direct=1
+do_verify=1
+verify=md5
+verify_fatal=1
+verify_dump=1
+verify_backlog=8
+
+[randwrite]
+rw=randwrite
+runtime=15
+time_based