diff --git a/run.in b/run.in
index a508c3871..60097087d 100755
--- a/run.in
+++ b/run.in
@@ -264,7 +264,11 @@ if [ -n "$RUN_OUTPUT_FILE" ]; then
     testname=`echo "$1" | sed -e 's,^./,,g'`
     echo "<test rescode=\"$fail\" name=\"$testname\" time=\"$(($end_t - $start_t))\">" >> $RUN_OUTPUT_FILE
     echo "<![CDATA[" >> $RUN_OUTPUT_FILE
-    cat $tmpout >> $RUN_OUTPUT_FILE
+    # skip the results of test-virt-rescue.pl, as they contain
+    # non-ASCII chars which give troubles to xsltproc
+    if ! echo "$testname" | grep test-virt-rescue.pl &>/dev/null ; then
+      cat $tmpout >> $RUN_OUTPUT_FILE
+    fi
     echo "]]>" >> $RUN_OUTPUT_FILE
     echo "</test>" >> $RUN_OUTPUT_FILE
 fi