diff --git a/gns3server/compute/qemu/qemu_vm.py b/gns3server/compute/qemu/qemu_vm.py
index 73f9d7c0..7bba6f50 100644
--- a/gns3server/compute/qemu/qemu_vm.py
+++ b/gns3server/compute/qemu/qemu_vm.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ import gns3server
 import subprocess
 
 from gns3server.utils import parse_version
-from gns3server.utils.asyncio import subprocess_check_output, wait_run_in_executor
+from gns3server.utils.asyncio import subprocess_check_output, cancellable_wait_run_in_executor
 from .qemu_error import QemuError
 from ..adapters.ethernet_adapter import EthernetAdapter
 from ..nios.nio_udp import NIOUDP
@@ -873,6 +873,22 @@ class QemuVM(BaseNode):
         except (OSError, subprocess.SubprocessError) as e:
             raise QemuError("Could not throttle CPU: {}".format(e))
 
+    @asyncio.coroutine
+    def create(self):
+        """
+        Creates QEMU VM and sets proper MD5 hashes
+        """
+
+        # In case user upload image manually we don't have md5 sums.
+        # We need generate hashes at this point, otherwise they will be generated
+        # at __json__ but not on separate thread.
+        yield from cancellable_wait_run_in_executor(md5sum, self._hda_disk_image)
+        yield from cancellable_wait_run_in_executor(md5sum, self._hdb_disk_image)
+        yield from cancellable_wait_run_in_executor(md5sum, self._hdc_disk_image)
+        yield from cancellable_wait_run_in_executor(md5sum, self._hdd_disk_image)
+
+        super(QemuVM, self).create()
+
     @asyncio.coroutine
     def start(self):
         """
diff --git a/tests/compute/qemu/test_qemu_vm.py b/tests/compute/qemu/test_qemu_vm.py
index 90347176..27dd2160 100644
--- a/tests/compute/qemu/test_qemu_vm.py
+++ b/tests/compute/qemu/test_qemu_vm.py
@@ -89,6 +89,21 @@ def test_vm(project, manager, fake_qemu_binary):
     assert vm.id == "00010203-0405-0607-0809-0a0b0c0d0e0f"
 
 
+def test_vm_create(loop, tmpdir, project, manager, fake_qemu_binary):
+    fake_img = str(tmpdir / 'hello')
+
+    with open(fake_img, 'w+') as f:
+        f.write('hello')
+
+    vm = QemuVM("test", "00010203-0405-0607-0809-0a0b0c0d0e0f", project, manager, qemu_path=fake_qemu_binary)
+    vm._hda_disk_image =  fake_img
+
+    loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.ensure_future(vm.create()))
+
+    # tests if `create` created md5sums
+    assert os.path.exists(str(tmpdir / 'hello.md5sum'))
+
+
 def test_vm_invalid_qemu_with_platform(project, manager, fake_qemu_binary):
 
     vm = QemuVM("test", "00010203-0405-0607-0809-0a0b0c0d0e0f", project, manager, qemu_path="/usr/fake/bin/qemu-system-64", platform="x86_64")