diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 2b109ecc18..716127e831 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ M: Song Gao <gaosong@loongson.cn>
 S: Maintained
 F: target/loongarch/
 F: tests/tcg/loongarch64/
-F: tests/functional/test_loongarch64_virt.py
+F: tests/functional/loongarch64/test_virt.py
 
 M68K TCG CPUs
 M: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
diff --git a/tests/functional/loongarch64/meson.build b/tests/functional/loongarch64/meson.build
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d1687176a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/functional/loongarch64/meson.build
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+tests_loongarch64_system_thorough = [
+  'virt',
+]
diff --git a/tests/functional/test_loongarch64_virt.py b/tests/functional/loongarch64/test_virt.py
similarity index 100%
rename from tests/functional/test_loongarch64_virt.py
rename to tests/functional/loongarch64/test_virt.py
diff --git a/tests/functional/meson.build b/tests/functional/meson.build
index f1fc01717c..e2e66dcf52 100644
--- a/tests/functional/meson.build
+++ b/tests/functional/meson.build
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ subdir('arm')
 subdir('avr')
 subdir('hppa')
 subdir('i386')
+subdir('loongarch64')
 
 test_mips_timeouts = {
   'mips_malta' : 480,
@@ -80,10 +81,6 @@ tests_generic_linuxuser = [
 tests_generic_bsduser = [
 ]
 
-tests_loongarch64_system_thorough = [
-  'loongarch64_virt',
-]
-
 tests_m68k_system_thorough = [
   'm68k_mcf5208evb',
   'm68k_nextcube',