diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c b/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c
index 6f6d0577a6..c23c57be3b 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c
@@ -2230,14 +2230,6 @@ qemuValidateDomainChrSourceDef(const virDomainChrSourceDef *def,
         break;
     }
 
-    if (def->logfile) {
-        if (!virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_CHARDEV_LOGFILE)) {
-            virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, "%s",
-                           _("logfile not supported in this QEMU binary"));
-            return -1;
-        }
-    }
-
     return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
index c716cf6bc2..cd316e06f9 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
@@ -1575,8 +1575,7 @@ mymain(void)
             QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_VFIO_PCI);
 
     DO_TEST("serial-file-log",
-            QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_ISA_SERIAL,
-            QEMU_CAPS_CHARDEV_LOGFILE);
+            QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_ISA_SERIAL);
     DO_TEST("serial-spiceport",
             QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_QXL,
             QEMU_CAPS_SPICE,
@@ -2823,7 +2822,6 @@ mymain(void)
                         QEMU_CAPS_KVM);
     DO_TEST("aarch64-pci-serial",
             QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_PCI_SERIAL,
-            QEMU_CAPS_CHARDEV_LOGFILE,
             QEMU_CAPS_OBJECT_GPEX,
             QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_PCI_BRIDGE,
             QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_DMI_TO_PCI_BRIDGE,
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c b/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
index 0507b70825..85a57be87a 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
@@ -991,7 +991,6 @@ mymain(void)
             QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_VIRTIO_GPU);
     DO_TEST("aarch64-pci-serial",
             QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_PCI_SERIAL,
-            QEMU_CAPS_CHARDEV_LOGFILE,
             QEMU_CAPS_OBJECT_GPEX,
             QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_PCI_BRIDGE,
             QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_DMI_TO_PCI_BRIDGE,