diff --git a/hw/net/vhost_net.c b/hw/net/vhost_net.c
index e8e1661646..fd1a93701a 100644
--- a/hw/net/vhost_net.c
+++ b/hw/net/vhost_net.c
@@ -541,6 +541,16 @@ int vhost_set_vring_enable(NetClientState *nc, int enable)
     VHostNetState *net = get_vhost_net(nc);
     const VhostOps *vhost_ops = net->dev.vhost_ops;
 
+    /*
+     * vhost-vdpa network devices need to enable dataplane virtqueues after
+     * DRIVER_OK, so they can recover device state before starting dataplane.
+     * Because of that, we don't enable virtqueues here and leave it to
+     * net/vhost-vdpa.c.
+     */
+    if (nc->info->type == NET_CLIENT_DRIVER_VHOST_VDPA) {
+        return 0;
+    }
+
     nc->vring_enable = enable;
 
     if (vhost_ops && vhost_ops->vhost_set_vring_enable) {
diff --git a/hw/virtio/vdpa-dev.c b/hw/virtio/vdpa-dev.c
index eb9ecea83b..13e87f06f6 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/vdpa-dev.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/vdpa-dev.c
@@ -253,14 +253,11 @@ static int vhost_vdpa_device_start(VirtIODevice *vdev, Error **errp)
 
     s->dev.acked_features = vdev->guest_features;
 
-    ret = vhost_dev_start(&s->dev, vdev, false);
+    ret = vhost_dev_start(&s->dev, vdev, true);
     if (ret < 0) {
         error_setg_errno(errp, -ret, "Error starting vhost");
         goto err_guest_notifiers;
     }
-    for (i = 0; i < s->dev.nvqs; ++i) {
-        vhost_vdpa_set_vring_ready(&s->vdpa, i);
-    }
     s->started = true;
 
     /*
diff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost-vdpa.c b/hw/virtio/vhost-vdpa.c
index ddae494ca8..31453466af 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/vhost-vdpa.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/vhost-vdpa.c
@@ -886,19 +886,41 @@ static int vhost_vdpa_get_vq_index(struct vhost_dev *dev, int idx)
     return idx;
 }
 
-int vhost_vdpa_set_vring_ready(struct vhost_vdpa *v, unsigned idx)
+static int vhost_vdpa_set_vring_enable_one(struct vhost_vdpa *v, unsigned idx,
+                                           int enable)
 {
     struct vhost_dev *dev = v->dev;
     struct vhost_vring_state state = {
         .index = idx,
-        .num = 1,
+        .num = enable,
     };
     int r = vhost_vdpa_call(dev, VHOST_VDPA_SET_VRING_ENABLE, &state);
 
-    trace_vhost_vdpa_set_vring_ready(dev, idx, r);
+    trace_vhost_vdpa_set_vring_enable_one(dev, idx, enable, r);
     return r;
 }
 
+static int vhost_vdpa_set_vring_enable(struct vhost_dev *dev, int enable)
+{
+    struct vhost_vdpa *v = dev->opaque;
+    unsigned int i;
+    int ret;
+
+    for (i = 0; i < dev->nvqs; ++i) {
+        ret = vhost_vdpa_set_vring_enable_one(v, i, enable);
+        if (ret < 0) {
+            return ret;
+        }
+    }
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
+int vhost_vdpa_set_vring_ready(struct vhost_vdpa *v, unsigned idx)
+{
+    return vhost_vdpa_set_vring_enable_one(v, idx, 1);
+}
+
 static int vhost_vdpa_set_config_call(struct vhost_dev *dev,
                                        int fd)
 {
@@ -1514,6 +1536,7 @@ const VhostOps vdpa_ops = {
         .vhost_set_features = vhost_vdpa_set_features,
         .vhost_reset_device = vhost_vdpa_reset_device,
         .vhost_get_vq_index = vhost_vdpa_get_vq_index,
+        .vhost_set_vring_enable = vhost_vdpa_set_vring_enable,
         .vhost_get_config  = vhost_vdpa_get_config,
         .vhost_set_config = vhost_vdpa_set_config,
         .vhost_requires_shm_log = NULL,
diff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost.c b/hw/virtio/vhost.c
index 2c9ac79468..0000a66186 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/vhost.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/vhost.c
@@ -1984,7 +1984,13 @@ static int vhost_dev_set_vring_enable(struct vhost_dev *hdev, int enable)
     return hdev->vhost_ops->vhost_set_vring_enable(hdev, enable);
 }
 
-/* Host notifiers must be enabled at this point. */
+/*
+ * Host notifiers must be enabled at this point.
+ *
+ * If @vrings is true, this function will enable all vrings before starting the
+ * device. If it is false, the vring initialization is left to be done by the
+ * caller.
+ */
 int vhost_dev_start(struct vhost_dev *hdev, VirtIODevice *vdev, bool vrings)
 {
     int i, r;
diff --git a/hw/virtio/trace-events b/hw/virtio/trace-events
index 77905d1994..3f18536868 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/trace-events
+++ b/hw/virtio/trace-events
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ vhost_vdpa_set_features(void *dev, uint64_t features) "dev: %p features: 0x%"PRI
 vhost_vdpa_get_device_id(void *dev, uint32_t device_id) "dev: %p device_id %"PRIu32
 vhost_vdpa_reset_device(void *dev) "dev: %p"
 vhost_vdpa_get_vq_index(void *dev, int idx, int vq_idx) "dev: %p idx: %d vq idx: %d"
-vhost_vdpa_set_vring_ready(void *dev, unsigned i, int r) "dev: %p, idx: %u, r: %d"
+vhost_vdpa_set_vring_enable_one(void *dev, unsigned i, int enable, int r) "dev: %p, idx: %u, enable: %u, r: %d"
 vhost_vdpa_dump_config(void *dev, const char *line) "dev: %p %s"
 vhost_vdpa_set_config(void *dev, uint32_t offset, uint32_t size, uint32_t flags) "dev: %p offset: %"PRIu32" size: %"PRIu32" flags: 0x%"PRIx32
 vhost_vdpa_get_config(void *dev, void *config, uint32_t config_len) "dev: %p config: %p config_len: %"PRIu32
