diff --git a/test-data/guestfs-hashsums.sh b/test-data/guestfs-hashsums.sh
index 96e1238ec..86a5aaf12 100755
--- a/test-data/guestfs-hashsums.sh
+++ b/test-data/guestfs-hashsums.sh
@@ -41,3 +41,16 @@ do_sha1 ()
       ;;
   esac
 }
+
+do_sha256 ()
+{
+  case "$(uname)" in
+    Linux)
+      sha256sum "$1" | awk '{print $1}'
+      ;;
+    *)
+      echo "$0: unknown method to calculate SHA256 of file on $(uname)"
+      exit 1
+      ;;
+  esac
+}
diff --git a/v2v/input_ova.ml b/v2v/input_ova.ml
index 0d0465967..0eb37d4d1 100644
--- a/v2v/input_ova.ml
+++ b/v2v/input_ova.ml
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ object
 
     (* Read any .mf (manifest) files and verify sha1. *)
     let mf = find_files exploded ".mf" in
-    let rex = Str.regexp "SHA1(\\(.*\\))= \\([0-9a-fA-F]+\\)\r?" in
+    let rex = Str.regexp "\\(SHA1\\|SHA256\\)(\\(.*\\))= \\([0-9a-fA-F]+\\)\r?" in
     List.iter (
       fun mf ->
         debug "processing manifest %s" mf;
@@ -142,13 +142,14 @@ object
         let rec loop () =
           let line = input_line chan in
           if Str.string_match rex line 0 then (
-            let disk = Str.matched_group 1 line in
-            let expected = Str.matched_group 2 line in
-            let csum = Checksums.SHA1 expected in
+            let mode = Str.matched_group 1 line in
+            let disk = Str.matched_group 2 line in
+            let expected = Str.matched_group 3 line in
+            let csum = Checksums.of_string mode expected in
             try Checksums.verify_checksum csum (mf_folder // disk)
             with Checksums.Mismatched_checksum (_, actual) ->
-              error (f_"checksum of disk %s does not match manifest %s (actual sha1(%s) = %s, expected sha1 (%s) = %s)")
-                disk mf disk actual disk expected;
+              error (f_"checksum of disk %s does not match manifest %s (actual %s(%s) = %s, expected %s(%s) = %s)")
+                disk mf mode disk actual mode disk expected;
           )
           else
             warning (f_"unable to parse line from manifest file: %S") line
diff --git a/v2v/test-v2v-i-ova.sh b/v2v/test-v2v-i-ova.sh
index ea4f3df45..716cd3395 100755
--- a/v2v/test-v2v-i-ova.sh
+++ b/v2v/test-v2v-i-ova.sh
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ qemu-img convert $f -O vmdk $d/$vmdk
 cp $ovf $d/$ovf
 sha1=`do_sha1 $d/$ovf`
 echo "SHA1($ovf)= $sha1" > $d/$mf
-sha1=`do_sha1 $d/$vmdk`
-echo "SHA1($vmdk)= $sha1" >> $d/$mf
+sha256=`do_sha256 $d/$vmdk`
+echo "SHA256($vmdk)= $sha256" >> $d/$mf
 
 pushd .
 cd $d