diff --git a/src/app/rpmostree-builtin-status.c b/src/app/rpmostree-builtin-status.c
index df15da2e4a..94a6da70a7 100644
--- a/src/app/rpmostree-builtin-status.c
+++ b/src/app/rpmostree-builtin-status.c
@@ -301,6 +301,10 @@ status_generic (RPMOSTreeSysroot *sysroot_proxy,
       else
         g_print ("%s", checksum);
       g_print ("\n");
+      const gchar *source_title = NULL;
+      g_variant_dict_lookup (dict, "source-title", "&s", &source_title);
+      if (source_title)
+        g_print ("  └ %s\n", source_title);
 
       const char *base_checksum = NULL;
       g_variant_dict_lookup (dict, "base-checksum", "&s", &base_checksum);
diff --git a/src/daemon/rpmostreed-deployment-utils.c b/src/daemon/rpmostreed-deployment-utils.c
index e5d4ab86ff..5cbfc11c37 100644
--- a/src/daemon/rpmostreed-deployment-utils.c
+++ b/src/daemon/rpmostreed-deployment-utils.c
@@ -253,6 +253,8 @@ rpmostreed_deployment_generate_variant (OstreeSysroot *sysroot,
       variant_add_metadata_attribute (&dict, OSTREE_COMMIT_META_KEY_ENDOFLIFE, "endoflife", commit);
     }
 
+  variant_add_metadata_attribute (&dict, OSTREE_COMMIT_META_KEY_SOURCE_TITLE, "source-title", commit);
+
   sigs = rpmostreed_deployment_gpg_results (repo, refspec, base_checksum, &gpg_enabled);
   variant_add_commit_details (&dict, NULL, commit);
 
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