diff --git a/Documentation/platforms/arm64/qemu/boards/qemu-armv8a/index.rst b/Documentation/platforms/arm64/qemu/boards/qemu-armv8a/index.rst
index 30179d6b81d..1cf9a44bd37 100644
--- a/Documentation/platforms/arm64/qemu/boards/qemu-armv8a/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/platforms/arm64/qemu/boards/qemu-armv8a/index.rst
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Configuring NuttX and compile:
    $ make
    $ dd if=/dev/zero of=./mydisk-1gb.img bs=1M count=1024
 
-Running with QEMU:
+Running with QEMU (VirtIO-MMIO transport):
 
 .. code:: console
 
@@ -108,6 +108,29 @@ Running with QEMU:
      -device virtio-blk-device,bus=virtio-mmio-bus.3,drive=hd \
      -mon chardev=con,mode=readline -kernel ./nuttx
 
+Running with QEMU (VirtIO-PCI transport):
+
+The netnsh configuration also supports VirtIO-PCI transport. To use VirtIO-PCI
+instead of VirtIO-MMIO, run QEMU with PCI devices:
+
+.. code:: console
+
+   $ qemu-system-aarch64 -cpu cortex-a53 -nographic \
+     -machine virt,virtualization=on,gic-version=3 \
+     -chardev stdio,id=con,mux=on -serial chardev:con \
+     -netdev user,id=u1,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:10023-10.0.2.15:23,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:15001-10.0.2.15:5001 \
+     -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=u1 \
+     -device virtio-rng-pci \
+     -drive file=./mydisk-1gb.img,if=none,format=raw,id=hd \
+     -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=hd \
+     -mon chardev=con,mode=readline -kernel ./nuttx
+
+.. note::
+
+   The VirtIO-PCI transport uses PCI bus for device discovery and communication,
+   which is different from the memory-mapped VirtIO-MMIO transport. Both transports
+   are supported simultaneously in the netnsh configuration
+
 ------------------------------------------
 Single Core with virtio gpu driver (GICv3)
 ------------------------------------------
diff --git a/boards/arm64/qemu/qemu-armv8a/configs/netnsh/defconfig b/boards/arm64/qemu/qemu-armv8a/configs/netnsh/defconfig
index 0d5cd014f7b..81d2757a713 100644
--- a/boards/arm64/qemu/qemu-armv8a/configs/netnsh/defconfig
+++ b/boards/arm64/qemu/qemu-armv8a/configs/netnsh/defconfig
@@ -18,7 +18,12 @@ CONFIG_ARCH_INTERRUPTSTACK=4096
 CONFIG_AUDIO=y
 CONFIG_BUILTIN=y
 CONFIG_CODECS_HASH_MD5=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_FEATURES=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_FULLOPT=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_PCI=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_PCI_ERROR=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_PCI_INFO=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_PCI_WARN=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_SYMBOLS=y
 CONFIG_DEFAULT_TASK_STACKSIZE=8192
 CONFIG_DEVICE_TREE=y
@@ -28,6 +33,8 @@ CONFIG_DRIVERS_VIRTIO=y
 CONFIG_DRIVERS_VIRTIO_BLK=y
 CONFIG_DRIVERS_VIRTIO_MMIO=y
 CONFIG_DRIVERS_VIRTIO_NET=y
+CONFIG_DRIVERS_VIRTIO_PCI=y
+CONFIG_DRIVERS_VIRTIO_PCI_POLLING_PERIOD=100
 CONFIG_DRIVERS_VIRTIO_RNG=y
 CONFIG_DRIVERS_VIRTIO_SERIAL=y
 CONFIG_DRIVERS_VIRTIO_SOUND=y
@@ -75,6 +82,8 @@ CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS=y
 CONFIG_NSH_FILEIOSIZE=512
 CONFIG_NSH_READLINE=y
 CONFIG_NXPLAYER_HTTP_STREAMING_SUPPORT=y
+CONFIG_PCI=y
+CONFIG_PCI_QEMU_TEST=y
 CONFIG_PREALLOC_TIMERS=4
 CONFIG_PTHREAD_STACK_MIN=8192
 CONFIG_RAM_SIZE=134217728