diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c b/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c
index 88f2aa8c49..c01bc6f8b5 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c
@@ -1889,14 +1889,6 @@ qemuValidateDomainDeviceDefNetwork(const virDomainNetDef *net,
                            _("virtio rss hash report is not supported with this QEMU binary"));
             return -1;
         }
-
-        if (net->mtu &&
-            !virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_VIRTIO_NET_HOST_MTU)) {
-            virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, "%s",
-                           _("setting MTU is not supported with this "
-                             "QEMU binary"));
-            return -1;
-        }
     }
 
     if (net->mtu &&
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c b/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
index e8261b7e8c..3a117ff137 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ mymain(void)
     DO_TEST_NOCAPS("watchdog");
     DO_TEST("net-bandwidth", QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_VGA, QEMU_CAPS_VNC);
     DO_TEST("net-bandwidth2", QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_VGA, QEMU_CAPS_VNC);
-    DO_TEST("net-mtu", QEMU_CAPS_VIRTIO_NET_HOST_MTU);
+    DO_TEST_NOCAPS("net-mtu");
     DO_TEST_NOCAPS("net-coalesce");
     DO_TEST_NOCAPS("net-many-models");
     DO_TEST("net-vdpa", QEMU_CAPS_NETDEV_VHOST_VDPA);