diff --git a/hw/pc_piix.c b/hw/pc_piix.c
index 0c0096fd7e..d68dbb2320 100644
--- a/hw/pc_piix.c
+++ b/hw/pc_piix.c
@@ -375,6 +375,10 @@ static QEMUMachine pc_machine_v1_2 = {
             .driver   = "qxl",\
             .property = "vgamem_mb",\
             .value    = stringify(8),\
+        },{\
+            .driver   = "virtio-blk-pci",\
+            .property = "config-wce",\
+            .value    = "off",\
         }
 
 static QEMUMachine pc_machine_v1_1 = {
diff --git a/hw/virtio-blk.c b/hw/virtio-blk.c
index fd8fa90792..0bc2b5e7c5 100644
--- a/hw/virtio-blk.c
+++ b/hw/virtio-blk.c
@@ -533,7 +533,9 @@ static uint32_t virtio_blk_get_features(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint32_t features)
     features |= (1 << VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE);
     features |= (1 << VIRTIO_BLK_F_SCSI);
 
-    features |= (1 << VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE);
+    if (s->blk->config_wce) {
+        features |= (1 << VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE);
+    }
     if (bdrv_enable_write_cache(s->bs))
         features |= (1 << VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE);
 
diff --git a/hw/virtio-blk.h b/hw/virtio-blk.h
index 35834cf493..454f445d61 100644
--- a/hw/virtio-blk.h
+++ b/hw/virtio-blk.h
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ struct VirtIOBlkConf
     BlockConf conf;
     char *serial;
     uint32_t scsi;
+    uint32_t config_wce;
 };
 
 #define DEFINE_VIRTIO_BLK_FEATURES(_state, _field) \
diff --git a/hw/virtio-pci.c b/hw/virtio-pci.c
index 5e6e09efb7..2a3d86f176 100644
--- a/hw/virtio-pci.c
+++ b/hw/virtio-pci.c
@@ -886,6 +886,7 @@ static Property virtio_blk_properties[] = {
 #ifdef __linux__
     DEFINE_PROP_BIT("scsi", VirtIOPCIProxy, blk.scsi, 0, true),
 #endif
+    DEFINE_PROP_BIT("config-wce", VirtIOPCIProxy, blk.config_wce, 0, true),
     DEFINE_PROP_BIT("ioeventfd", VirtIOPCIProxy, flags, VIRTIO_PCI_FLAG_USE_IOEVENTFD_BIT, true),
     DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("vectors", VirtIOPCIProxy, nvectors, 2),
     DEFINE_VIRTIO_BLK_FEATURES(VirtIOPCIProxy, host_features),