diff --git a/tools/marvin/marvin/TestCaseExecuteEngine.py b/tools/marvin/marvin/TestCaseExecuteEngine.py
index 07df5633c99..52a6dacc726 100644
--- a/tools/marvin/marvin/TestCaseExecuteEngine.py
+++ b/tools/marvin/marvin/TestCaseExecuteEngine.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ def testCaseLogger(message, logger=None):
         logger.debug(message)
 
 class TestCaseExecuteEngine(object):
-    def __init__(self, testclient, testcaseLogFile=None, testResultLogFile=None, format="text"):
+    def __init__(self, testclient, testcaseLogFile=None, testResultLogFile=None, format="text", xmlDir="xml-reports"):
         """
         Initialize the testcase execution engine, just the basics here
         @var testcaseLogFile: client log file
@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ class TestCaseExecuteEngine(object):
             self.testResultLogFile = fp
         else:
             self.testResultLogFile = sys.stdout
+        if self.format == "xml"  and (xmlDir is not None):
+            self.xmlDir = xmlDir
+            
+            
             
     def loadTestsFromDir(self, testDirectory):
         """ Load the test suites from a package with multiple test files """
@@ -91,4 +95,4 @@ class TestCaseExecuteEngine(object):
             if self.format == "text":
                 unittest.TextTestRunner(stream=self.testResultLogFile, verbosity=2).run(self.suite)
             elif self.format == "xml":
-                xmlrunner.XMLTestRunner(output='xml-reports', verbose=True).run(self.suite)
+                xmlrunner.XMLTestRunner(output=self.xmlDir, verbose=True).run(self.suite)
diff --git a/tools/marvin/marvin/deployAndRun.py b/tools/marvin/marvin/deployAndRun.py
index 80d74e4b63e..5b9e4dc59f1 100644
--- a/tools/marvin/marvin/deployAndRun.py
+++ b/tools/marvin/marvin/deployAndRun.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     parser.add_option("-l", "--load", dest="load", action="store_true", help="only load config, do not deploy, it will only run testcase")
     parser.add_option("-f", "--file", dest="module", help="run tests in the given file")
     parser.add_option("-n", "--nose", dest="nose", action="store_true", help="run tests using nose")
-    parser.add_option("-x", "--xml", dest="xmlrunner", action="store_true", help="use the xml runner to generate xml reports")
+    parser.add_option("-x", "--xml", dest="xmlrunner", action="store", default="./xml-reports", help="use the xml runner to generate xml reports and path to store xml files")
     (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
     
     testResultLogFile = None
@@ -48,7 +48,9 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
         deploy.deploy()
         
     format = "text"        
-    if options.xmlrunner:
+    xmlDir = "xml-reports"
+    if options.xmlrunner is not None:
+        xmlDir = options.xmlrunner
         format = "xml"
     
     if options.testCaseFolder is None:
@@ -60,7 +62,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
                 engine = NoseTestExecuteEngine.NoseTestExecuteEngine(deploy.testClient, testCaseLogFile, testResultLogFile, format)
                 engine.runTestsFromFile(options.module)
             else:
-                engine = TestCaseExecuteEngine.TestCaseExecuteEngine(deploy.testClient, testCaseLogFile, testResultLogFile, format)
+                engine = TestCaseExecuteEngine.TestCaseExecuteEngine(deploy.testClient, testCaseLogFile, testResultLogFile, format, xmlDir)
                 engine.loadTestsFromFile(options.module)
                 engine.run()
     else:
@@ -68,6 +70,6 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
             engine = NoseTestExecuteEngine.NoseTestExecuteEngine(deploy.testClient, clientLog=testCaseLogFile, resultLog=testResultLogFile, workingdir=options.testCaseFolder, format=format)
             engine.runTests()
         else:
-           engine = TestCaseExecuteEngine.TestCaseExecuteEngine(deploy.testClient, testCaseLogFile, testResultLogFile, format)
+           engine = TestCaseExecuteEngine.TestCaseExecuteEngine(deploy.testClient, testCaseLogFile, testResultLogFile, format, xmlDir)
            engine.loadTestsFromDir(options.testCaseFolder)
            engine.run()