diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio.c b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
index f57b6c955e1c4df0283ffd34589ebaddd80fa03a..74b711f473c969ce0053c50d765b3a30c54bd4f1 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
@@ -2223,7 +2223,7 @@ void virtio_reset(void *opaque)
     vdev->start_on_kick = false;
     vdev->started = false;
     vdev->broken = false;
-    vdev->guest_features = 0;
+    virtio_set_features_nocheck(vdev, 0);
     vdev->queue_sel = 0;
     vdev->status = 0;
     vdev->disabled = false;