diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/nativesdk-qemu-helper_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/nativesdk-qemu-helper_1.0.bb
index e591cf0f292..e1f343989a5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/nativesdk-qemu-helper_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/nativesdk-qemu-helper_1.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Qemu helper scripts"
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 # QEMU 11.0.0+ requires a 64-bit host architecture
-COMPATIBLE_HOST = "(aarch64|x86_64|ppc64|ppc64le|riscv64|loongarch64|mips64|s390x|sparc64).*-linux"
+COMPATIBLE_HOST = "(aarch64|x86_64|ppc64|ppc64le|riscv64|loongarch64|mips64|s390x|sparc64).*-.*"
 RDEPENDS:${PN} = "nativesdk-qemu nativesdk-unfs3 nativesdk-pseudo \
                   nativesdk-python3-shell nativesdk-python3-fcntl nativesdk-python3-logging \
                 "
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
index e440d748b25..9ec522124cc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ COMPATIBLE_HOST:riscv32 = "null"
 
 # QEMU 11.0.0+ requires a 64-bit host architecture for emulator builds
 COMPATIBLE_HOST:class-target = "(aarch64|x86_64|ppc64|ppc64le|riscv64|loongarch64|mips64|s390x|sparc64).*-linux"
-COMPATIBLE_HOST:class-nativesdk = "(aarch64|x86_64|ppc64|ppc64le|riscv64|loongarch64|mips64|s390x|sparc64).*-linux"
+COMPATIBLE_HOST:class-nativesdk = "(aarch64|x86_64|ppc64|ppc64le|riscv64|loongarch64|mips64|s390x|sparc64).*-.*"
 
 # Per https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-09/msg03873.html
 # upstream states qemu doesn't work without optimization