diff --git a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
index ffccb6b4466..7cc23fab51f 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
@@ -315,6 +315,7 @@ in
   moosefs = handleTest ./moosefs.nix {};
   mpd = handleTest ./mpd.nix {};
   mpv = handleTest ./mpv.nix {};
+  mtp = handleTest ./mtp.nix {};
   mumble = handleTest ./mumble.nix {};
   musescore = handleTest ./musescore.nix {};
   munin = handleTest ./munin.nix {};
diff --git a/nixos/tests/mtp.nix b/nixos/tests/mtp.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8f0835d75d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/tests/mtp.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+import ./make-test-python.nix ({ pkgs, ... }: {
+  name = "mtp";
+  meta = with pkgs.lib.maintainers; {
+    maintainers = [ matthewcroughan nixinator ];
+  };
+
+  nodes =
+  {
+    client = { config, pkgs, ... }: {
+      # DBUS runs only once a user session is created, which means a user has to
+      # login. Here, we log in as root. Once logged in, the gvfs-daemon service runs
+      # as UID 0 in User-0.service
+      services.getty.autologinUser = "root";
+
+      # XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is needed for running systemd-user services such as
+      # gvfs-daemon as root.
+      environment.variables.XDG_RUNTIME_DIR = "/run/user/0";
+
+      environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ usbutils glib jmtpfs tree ];
+      services.gvfs.enable = true;
+
+      # Creates a usb-mtp device inside the VM, which is mapped to the host's
+      # /tmp folder, it is able to write files to this location, but only has
+      # permissions to read its own creations.
+      virtualisation.qemu.options = [
+        "-usb"
+        "-device usb-mtp,rootdir=/tmp,readonly=false"
+      ];
+    };
+  };
+
+
+  testScript = { nodes, ... }:
+    let
+      # Creates a list of QEMU MTP devices matching USB ID (46f4:0004). This
+      # value can be sourced in a shell script. This is so we can loop over the
+      # devices we find, as this test may want to use more than one MTP device
+      # in future.
+      mtpDevices = pkgs.writeScript "mtpDevices.sh" ''
+        export mtpDevices=$(lsusb -d 46f4:0004 | awk {'print $2","$4'} | sed 's/[:-]/ /g')
+      '';
+      # Qemu is only capable of creating an MTP device with Picture Transfer
+      # Protocol. This means that gvfs must use gphoto2:// rather than mtp://
+      # when mounting.
+      # https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/970bc16f60937bcfd334f14c614bd4407c247961/hw/usb/dev-mtp.c#L278
+      gvfs = rec {
+        mountAllMtpDevices = pkgs.writeScript "mountAllMtpDevices.sh" ''
+          set -e
+          source ${mtpDevices}
+          for i in $mtpDevices
+          do
+            gio mount "gphoto2://[usb:$i]/"
+          done
+        '';
+        unmountAllMtpDevices = pkgs.writeScript "unmountAllMtpDevices.sh" ''
+          set -e
+          source ${mtpDevices}
+          for i in $mtpDevices
+          do
+            gio mount -u "gphoto2://[usb:$i]/"
+          done
+        '';
+        # gvfsTest:
+        # 1. Creates a 10M test file
+        # 2. Copies it to the device using GIO tools
+        # 3. Checks for corruption with `diff`
+        # 4. Removes the file, then unmounts the disks.
+        gvfsTest = pkgs.writeScript "gvfsTest.sh" ''
+          set -e
+          source ${mtpDevices}
+          ${mountAllMtpDevices}
+          dd if=/dev/urandom of=testFile10M bs=1M count=10
+          for i in $mtpDevices
+          do
+            gio copy ./testFile10M gphoto2://[usb:$i]/
+            ls -lah /run/user/0/gvfs/*/testFile10M
+            gio remove gphoto2://[usb:$i]/testFile10M
+          done
+          ${unmountAllMtpDevices}
+        '';
+      };
+      jmtpfs = {
+        # jmtpfsTest:
+        # 1. Mounts the device on a dir named `phone` using jmtpfs
+        # 2. Puts the current Nixpkgs libmtp version into a file
+        # 3. Checks for corruption with `diff`
+        # 4. Prints the directory tree
+        jmtpfsTest = pkgs.writeScript "jmtpfsTest.sh" ''
+          set -e
+          mkdir phone
+          jmtpfs phone
+          echo "${pkgs.libmtp.version}" > phone/tmp/testFile
+          echo "${pkgs.libmtp.version}" > testFile
+          diff phone/tmp/testFile testFile
+          tree phone
+        '';
+      };
+    in
+    # Using >&2 allows the results of the scripts to be printed to the terminal
+    # when building this test with Nix. Scripts would otherwise complete
+    # silently.
+    ''
+    start_all()
+    client.wait_for_unit("multi-user.target")
+    client.wait_for_unit("dbus.service")
+    client.succeed("${gvfs.gvfsTest} >&2")
+    client.succeed("${jmtpfs.jmtpfsTest} >&2")
+  '';
+})