diff --git a/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-device.c b/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-device.c
index 513e181c82..e5b68dad5a 100644
--- a/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-device.c
+++ b/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-device.c
@@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ static PCIDeviceInfo virtio_9p_info = {
     .revision  = VIRTIO_PCI_ABI_VERSION,
     .class_id  = 0x2,
     .qdev.props = (Property[]) {
+        DEFINE_PROP_BIT("ioeventfd", VirtIOPCIProxy, flags,
+                        VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD_BIT, true),
         DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("vectors", VirtIOPCIProxy, nvectors, 2),
         DEFINE_VIRTIO_COMMON_FEATURES(VirtIOPCIProxy, host_features),
         DEFINE_PROP_STRING("mount_tag", VirtIOPCIProxy, fsconf.tag),
diff --git a/hw/virtio-pci.c b/hw/virtio-pci.c
index df27c198b0..ca5923c495 100644
--- a/hw/virtio-pci.c
+++ b/hw/virtio-pci.c
@@ -83,11 +83,6 @@
 /* Flags track per-device state like workarounds for quirks in older guests. */
 #define VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_BUS_MASTER_BUG  (1 << 0)
 
-/* Performance improves when virtqueue kick processing is decoupled from the
- * vcpu thread using ioeventfd for some devices. */
-#define VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD_BIT 1
-#define VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD   (1 << VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD_BIT)
-
 /* QEMU doesn't strictly need write barriers since everything runs in
  * lock-step.  We'll leave the calls to wmb() in though to make it obvious for
  * KVM or if kqemu gets SMP support.
diff --git a/hw/virtio-pci.h b/hw/virtio-pci.h
index 14c10f7d67..f8404de92b 100644
--- a/hw/virtio-pci.h
+++ b/hw/virtio-pci.h
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@
 #include "virtio-net.h"
 #include "virtio-serial.h"
 
+/* Performance improves when virtqueue kick processing is decoupled from the
+ * vcpu thread using ioeventfd for some devices. */
+#define VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD_BIT 1
+#define VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD   (1 << VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD_BIT)
+
 typedef struct {
     PCIDevice pci_dev;
     VirtIODevice *vdev;