diff --git a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
index 5734edf..0e79820 100644
--- a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ COMPRESSIONTYPES = "gz bz2 lzma xz"
 COMPRESS_CMD_lzma = "lzma -k -f -7 ${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.${type}"
 COMPRESS_CMD_gz = "gzip -f -9 -c ${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.${type} > ${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.${type}.gz"
 COMPRESS_CMD_bz2 = "bzip2 -f -k ${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.${type}"
-COMPRESS_CMD_xz = "xz -f -k -c ${XZ_COMPRESSION_LEVEL} --check=${XZ_INTEGRITY_CHECK} ${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.${type}"
+COMPRESS_CMD_xz = "xz -f -k -c ${XZ_COMPRESSION_LEVEL} --check=${XZ_INTEGRITY_CHECK} ${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.${type} > ${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.${type}.xz"
 COMPRESS_DEPENDS_lzma = "xz-native"
 COMPRESS_DEPENDS_gz = ""
 COMPRESS_DEPENDS_bz2 = ""