diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index b541506c1c..bc0ac931e1 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1622,6 +1622,7 @@ config_host_data.set('CONFIG_POSIX_FALLOCATE', cc.has_function('posix_fallocate'
 # Note that we need to specify prefix: here to avoid incorrectly
 # thinking that Windows has posix_memalign()
 config_host_data.set('CONFIG_POSIX_MEMALIGN', cc.has_function('posix_memalign', prefix: '#include <stdlib.h>'))
+config_host_data.set('CONFIG_ALIGNED_MALLOC', cc.has_function('_aligned_malloc'))
 config_host_data.set('CONFIG_PPOLL', cc.has_function('ppoll'))
 config_host_data.set('CONFIG_PREADV', cc.has_function('preadv', prefix: '#include <sys/uio.h>'))
 config_host_data.set('CONFIG_SEM_TIMEDWAIT', cc.has_function('sem_timedwait', dependencies: threads))
diff --git a/util/memalign.c b/util/memalign.c
index 6dfc20abbb..22b405700e 100644
--- a/util/memalign.c
+++ b/util/memalign.c
@@ -25,6 +25,45 @@
  */
 
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
+#include "qemu/host-utils.h"
+#include "trace.h"
+
+void *qemu_try_memalign(size_t alignment, size_t size)
+{
+    void *ptr;
+
+    if (alignment < sizeof(void*)) {
+        alignment = sizeof(void*);
+    } else {
+        g_assert(is_power_of_2(alignment));
+    }
+
+    /*
+     * Handling of 0 allocations varies among the different
+     * platform APIs (for instance _aligned_malloc() will
+     * fail) -- ensure that we always return a valid non-NULL
+     * pointer that can be freed by qemu_vfree().
+     */
+    if (size == 0) {
+        size++;
+    }
+#if defined(CONFIG_POSIX_MEMALIGN)
+    int ret;
+    ret = posix_memalign(&ptr, alignment, size);
+    if (ret != 0) {
+        errno = ret;
+        ptr = NULL;
+    }
+#elif defined(CONFIG_ALIGNED_MALLOC)
+    ptr = _aligned_malloc(size, alignment);
+#elif defined(CONFIG_BSD)
+    ptr = valloc(size);
+#else
+    ptr = memalign(alignment, size);
+#endif
+    trace_qemu_memalign(alignment, size, ptr);
+    return ptr;
+}
 
 void *qemu_memalign(size_t alignment, size_t size)
 {
diff --git a/util/oslib-posix.c b/util/oslib-posix.c
index f7e22f4ff9..91798f7e50 100644
--- a/util/oslib-posix.c
+++ b/util/oslib-posix.c
@@ -199,35 +199,6 @@ fail_close:
     return false;
 }
 
-void *qemu_try_memalign(size_t alignment, size_t size)
-{
-    void *ptr;
-
-    if (alignment < sizeof(void*)) {
-        alignment = sizeof(void*);
-    } else {
-        g_assert(is_power_of_2(alignment));
-    }
-
-    if (size == 0) {
-        size++;
-    }
-#if defined(CONFIG_POSIX_MEMALIGN)
-    int ret;
-    ret = posix_memalign(&ptr, alignment, size);
-    if (ret != 0) {
-        errno = ret;
-        ptr = NULL;
-    }
-#elif defined(CONFIG_BSD)
-    ptr = valloc(size);
-#else
-    ptr = memalign(alignment, size);
-#endif
-    trace_qemu_memalign(alignment, size, ptr);
-    return ptr;
-}
-
 /* alloc shared memory pages */
 void *qemu_anon_ram_alloc(size_t size, uint64_t *alignment, bool shared,
                           bool noreserve)
diff --git a/util/oslib-win32.c b/util/oslib-win32.c
index 8c28d70904..d9768532be 100644
--- a/util/oslib-win32.c
+++ b/util/oslib-win32.c
@@ -44,23 +44,6 @@
 /* this must come after including "trace.h" */
 #include <shlobj.h>
 
-void *qemu_try_memalign(size_t alignment, size_t size)
-{
-    void *ptr;
-
-    if (alignment < sizeof(void *)) {
-        alignment = sizeof(void *);
-    } else {
-        g_assert(is_power_of_2(alignment));
-    }
-    if (size == 0) {
-        size++;
-    }
-    ptr = _aligned_malloc(size, alignment);
-    trace_qemu_memalign(alignment, size, ptr);
-    return ptr;
-}
-
 static int get_allocation_granularity(void)
 {
     SYSTEM_INFO system_info;