diff --git a/src/app/rpmostree-builtin-status.c b/src/app/rpmostree-builtin-status.c
index df15da2e4a..f5ab3ed221 100644
--- a/src/app/rpmostree-builtin-status.c
+++ b/src/app/rpmostree-builtin-status.c
@@ -216,6 +216,8 @@ status_generic (RPMOSTreeSysroot *sysroot_proxy,
     {
       g_autoptr(GVariant) child = g_variant_iter_next_value (&iter);
       g_autoptr(GVariantDict) dict = NULL;
+      g_autoptr(GVariantDict) commit_meta_dict = NULL;
+      g_autoptr(GVariantDict) layered_commit_meta_dict = NULL;
       gboolean is_locally_assembled = FALSE;
       g_autofree const gchar **origin_packages = NULL;
       g_autofree const gchar **origin_requested_packages = NULL;
@@ -307,6 +309,23 @@ status_generic (RPMOSTreeSysroot *sysroot_proxy,
       if (base_checksum != NULL)
         is_locally_assembled = TRUE;
 
+      /* Load the commit metadata into a dict */
+      { g_autoptr(GVariant) commit_meta_v = NULL;
+        g_assert (g_variant_dict_lookup (dict, "base-commit-meta", "@a{sv}", &commit_meta_v));
+        commit_meta_dict = g_variant_dict_new (commit_meta_v);
+      }
+      if (is_locally_assembled)
+        {
+          g_autoptr(GVariant) layered_commit_meta_v = NULL;
+          g_assert (g_variant_dict_lookup (dict, "layered-commit-meta", "@a{sv}", &layered_commit_meta_v));
+          layered_commit_meta_dict = g_variant_dict_new (layered_commit_meta_v);
+        }
+
+      const gchar *source_title = NULL;
+      g_variant_dict_lookup (commit_meta_dict, OSTREE_COMMIT_META_KEY_SOURCE_TITLE, "&s", &source_title);
+      if (source_title)
+        g_print ("  %s %s\n", libsd_special_glyph (TREE_RIGHT), source_title);
+
       if (is_locally_assembled)
         g_assert (g_variant_dict_lookup (dict, "base-timestamp", "t", &t));
       else
diff --git a/tests/vmcheck/overlay.sh b/tests/vmcheck/overlay.sh
index 4f613fbddb..99a2724624 100755
--- a/tests/vmcheck/overlay.sh
+++ b/tests/vmcheck/overlay.sh
@@ -21,13 +21,19 @@ set -x
 
 # And then this code path in the VM
 
-# get csum of current default deployment
+# get csum and origin of current default deployment
 commit=$(rpm-ostree status --json | \
   python -c '
 import sys, json;
 deployment = json.load(sys.stdin)["deployments"][0]
 print deployment["checksum"]
 exit()')
+origin=$(rpm-ostree status --json | \
+  python -c '
+import sys, json;
+deployment = json.load(sys.stdin)["deployments"][0]
+print deployment["origin"]
+exit()')
 
 if [[ -z $commit ]] || ! ostree rev-parse $commit; then
   echo "Error while determining current commit" >&2
@@ -59,6 +65,6 @@ fi
 rm -vrf vmcheck/usr/etc/selinux/targeted/semanage.*.LOCK
 # ✀✀✀ END tmp hack
 
-ostree commit --parent=none -b vmcheck --link-checkout-speedup \
+ostree commit --parent=none -b vmcheck --add-metadata-string=ostree.source-title="Dev overlay on ${origin}" --add-metadata-string=rpmostree.original-origin=${origin} --link-checkout-speedup \
   --selinux-policy=vmcheck --tree=dir=vmcheck
 ostree admin deploy vmcheck
diff --git a/tests/vmcheck/test-basic.sh b/tests/vmcheck/test-basic.sh
index 61ca6a59b9..5d93f7b9a0 100755
--- a/tests/vmcheck/test-basic.sh
+++ b/tests/vmcheck/test-basic.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ vm_assert_status_jq \
   '.deployments[0]["requested-local-packages"]' \
   '.deployments[0]["base-removals"]' \
   '.deployments[0]["requested-base-removals"]' \
-  '.deployments[0]["base-commit-meta"]' \
+  '.deployments[0]["base-commit-meta"]["ostree.source-title"]|contains("overlay")' \
   '.deployments[0]["layered-commit-meta"]|not'
 echo "ok empty pkg arrays, and commit meta correct in status json"