diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index a98f5674d6..45303cafdd 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -366,6 +366,8 @@ build-disabled:
 # Xen accelerator is not detected / selected. As result it build the
 # i386-softmmu and x86_64-softmmu with KVM being the single accelerator
 # available.
+# Also use a different coroutine implementation (which is only really of
+# interest to KVM users, i.e. with TCG disabled)
 build-tcg-disabled:
   <<: *native_build_job_definition
   needs:
@@ -375,7 +377,8 @@ build-tcg-disabled:
   script:
     - mkdir build
     - cd build
-    - ../configure --disable-tcg --audio-drv-list="" || { cat config.log meson-logs/meson-log.txt && exit 1; }
+    - ../configure --disable-tcg --audio-drv-list="" --with-coroutine=ucontext
+      || { cat config.log meson-logs/meson-log.txt && exit 1; }
     - make -j"$JOBS"
     - make check-unit
     - make check-qapi-schema
@@ -569,15 +572,6 @@ build-tci:
 
 # Alternate coroutines implementations are only really of interest to KVM users
 # However we can't test against KVM on Gitlab-CI so we can only run unit tests
-build-coroutine-ucontext:
-  <<: *native_build_job_definition
-  needs:
-    job: amd64-ubuntu2004-container
-  variables:
-    IMAGE: ubuntu2004
-    CONFIGURE_ARGS: --with-coroutine=ucontext --disable-tcg
-    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-unit
-
 build-coroutine-sigaltstack:
   <<: *native_build_job_definition
   needs: