diff --git a/poky/meta/conf/machine/qemuarm64.conf b/poky/meta/conf/machine/qemuarm64.conf
index 7965fac..e8aac38 100644
--- a/poky/meta/conf/machine/qemuarm64.conf
+++ b/poky/meta/conf/machine/qemuarm64.conf
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "Image"
 
 SERIAL_CONSOLES ?= "115200;ttyAMA0 115200;hvc0"
+SERIAL_CONSOLES_CHECK = "${SERIAL_CONSOLES}"
 
 # For runqemu
 QB_SYSTEM_NAME = "qemu-system-aarch64"