diff --git a/iothread.c b/iothread.c
index 1b3463cb00..e675c38442 100644
--- a/iothread.c
+++ b/iothread.c
@@ -31,11 +31,15 @@ typedef ObjectClass IOThreadClass;
 #define IOTHREAD_CLASS(klass) \
    OBJECT_CLASS_CHECK(IOThreadClass, klass, TYPE_IOTHREAD)
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_POSIX
 /* Benchmark results from 2016 on NVMe SSD drives show max polling times around
  * 16-32 microseconds yield IOPS improvements for both iodepth=1 and iodepth=32
  * workloads.
  */
 #define IOTHREAD_POLL_MAX_NS_DEFAULT 32768ULL
+#else
+#define IOTHREAD_POLL_MAX_NS_DEFAULT 0ULL
+#endif
 
 static __thread IOThread *my_iothread;
 
diff --git a/util/aio-win32.c b/util/aio-win32.c
index d6d5e02f00..a67b00c6ad 100644
--- a/util/aio-win32.c
+++ b/util/aio-win32.c
@@ -410,5 +410,7 @@ void aio_context_setup(AioContext *ctx)
 void aio_context_set_poll_params(AioContext *ctx, int64_t max_ns,
                                  int64_t grow, int64_t shrink, Error **errp)
 {
-    error_setg(errp, "AioContext polling is not implemented on Windows");
+    if (max_ns) {
+        error_setg(errp, "AioContext polling is not implemented on Windows");
+    }
 }