diff --git a/tests/data/smbios/type11_blob.legacy b/tests/data/smbios/type11_blob.legacy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..aef463aab9
Binary files /dev/null and b/tests/data/smbios/type11_blob.legacy differ
diff --git a/tests/qtest/bios-tables-test.c b/tests/qtest/bios-tables-test.c
index a116f88e1d..d1ff4db7a2 100644
--- a/tests/qtest/bios-tables-test.c
+++ b/tests/qtest/bios-tables-test.c
@@ -2106,6 +2106,21 @@ static void test_acpi_pc_smbios_blob(void)
     free_test_data(&data);
 }
 
+static void test_acpi_isapc_smbios_legacy(void)
+{
+    uint8_t req_type11[] = { 1, 11 };
+    test_data data = {
+        .machine = "isapc",
+        .variant = ".pc_smbios_legacy",
+        .required_struct_types = req_type11,
+        .required_struct_types_len = ARRAY_SIZE(req_type11),
+    };
+
+    test_smbios("-smbios file=tests/data/smbios/type11_blob.legacy "
+                "-smbios type=1,family=TEST", &data);
+    free_test_data(&data);
+}
+
 static void test_oem_fields(test_data *data)
 {
     int i;
@@ -2261,6 +2276,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
                            test_acpi_pc_smbios_options);
             qtest_add_func("acpi/piix4/smbios-blob",
                            test_acpi_pc_smbios_blob);
+            qtest_add_func("acpi/piix4/smbios-legacy",
+                           test_acpi_isapc_smbios_legacy);
         }
         if (qtest_has_machine(MACHINE_Q35)) {
             qtest_add_func("acpi/q35", test_acpi_q35_tcg);