diff --git a/nbdkit.spec b/nbdkit.spec
index 39b2f03..fb87756 100644
--- a/nbdkit.spec
+++ b/nbdkit.spec
@@ -677,12 +677,14 @@ mkdir -p $HOME/.cache/libvirt
 export LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1
 export LIBGUESTFS_TRACE=1
 
+%ifarch %{complete_test_arches}
 # qemu in Fedora Rawhide broken:
 # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1650975
 make -C tests test-error
 rm tests/test-error
 touch tests/test-error
 chmod +x tests/test-error
+%endif
 
 make check -j1 || {
     cat tests/test-suite.log