diff --git a/configure b/configure
index d97fd81709..056b3561b9 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -2963,11 +2963,12 @@ if compile_prog "-Werror" "" ; then
 fi
 
 ########################################
-# check if we have valgrind/valgrind.h
+# check if we have valgrind/valgrind.h and valgrind/memcheck.h
 
 valgrind_h=no
 cat > $TMPC << EOF
 #include <valgrind/valgrind.h>
+#include <valgrind/memcheck.h>
 int main(void) {
   return 0;
 }
diff --git a/kvm-all.c b/kvm-all.c
index 34b02c1fba..e0244b6d1e 100644
--- a/kvm-all.c
+++ b/kvm-all.c
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@
 #include <sys/eventfd.h>
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_VALGRIND_H
+#include <valgrind/memcheck.h>
+#endif
+
 /* KVM uses PAGE_SIZE in its definition of COALESCED_MMIO_MAX */
 #define PAGE_SIZE TARGET_PAGE_SIZE
 
@@ -1719,6 +1723,9 @@ void *kvm_vmalloc(ram_addr_t size)
 
 void kvm_setup_guest_memory(void *start, size_t size)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_VALGRIND_H
+    VALGRIND_MAKE_MEM_DEFINED(start, size);
+#endif
     if (!kvm_has_sync_mmu()) {
         int ret = qemu_madvise(start, size, QEMU_MADV_DONTFORK);