diff --git a/tests/qemuxmlconfdata/firmware-auto-efi-varstore-aarch64.aarch64-latest.err b/tests/qemuxmlconfdata/firmware-auto-efi-varstore-aarch64.aarch64-latest.err
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b45d304221
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxmlconfdata/firmware-auto-efi-varstore-aarch64.aarch64-latest.err
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Only one of NVRAM/varstore can be used
diff --git a/tests/qemuxmlconfdata/firmware-auto-efi-varstore-aarch64.xml b/tests/qemuxmlconfdata/firmware-auto-efi-varstore-aarch64.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e403c60643
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxmlconfdata/firmware-auto-efi-varstore-aarch64.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<domain type='kvm'>
+  <name>guest</name>
+  <uuid>63840878-0deb-4095-97e6-fc444d9bc9fa</uuid>
+  <memory unit='KiB'>1048576</memory>
+  <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
+  <os firmware='efi'>
+    <type arch='aarch64' machine='virt-8.2'>hvm</type>
+    <varstore/>
+  </os>
+  <features>
+    <acpi/>
+  </features>
+  <devices>
+    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-aarch64</emulator>
+    <controller type='usb' model='none'/>
+    <memballoon model='none'/>
+  </devices>
+</domain>
diff --git a/tests/qemuxmlconftest.c b/tests/qemuxmlconftest.c
index 9e330e2935..24168b98af 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxmlconftest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuxmlconftest.c
@@ -1672,6 +1672,7 @@ mymain(void)
     DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("firmware-auto-efi-nvram-network-nbd");
     DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("firmware-auto-efi-nvram-network-iscsi");
     DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST_PARSE_ERROR("firmware-auto-efi-varstore-q35");
+    DO_TEST_CAPS_ARCH_LATEST_PARSE_ERROR("firmware-auto-efi-varstore-aarch64", "aarch64");
 
     DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST("firmware-auto-efi-format-loader-qcow2");
     DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST_PARSE_ERROR("firmware-auto-efi-format-loader-qcow2-rom");