diff --git a/docs/use-cases/Nvidia-GPU-passthrough-and-Kata.md b/docs/use-cases/Nvidia-GPU-passthrough-and-Kata.md
index 1a3253fdc8..58b36c02d7 100644
--- a/docs/use-cases/Nvidia-GPU-passthrough-and-Kata.md
+++ b/docs/use-cases/Nvidia-GPU-passthrough-and-Kata.md
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ To use large BARs devices (for example, Nvidia Tesla P100), you need Kata versio
 
 The following configuration in the Kata `configuration.toml` file as shown below can work:
 
-Hotplug for PCI devices by `shpchp` (Linux's SHPC PCI Hotplug driver):
+Hotplug for PCI devices by `acpi_pcihp` (Linux's ACPI PCI Hotplug driver):
 ```
 machine_type = "q35"
 
@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ The following kernel config options need to be enabled:
 ```
 # Support PCI/PCIe device hotplug (Required for large BARs device)
 CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_PCIE=y
-CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_SHPC=y
 
 # Support for loading modules (Required for load Nvidia drivers)
 CONFIG_MODULES=y
diff --git a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/qemu.go b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/qemu.go
index c2cee7a2b7..48252a0b5f 100644
--- a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/qemu.go
+++ b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/qemu.go
@@ -2126,8 +2126,23 @@ func genericAppendBridges(devices []govmmQemu.Device, bridges []types.Bridge, ma
 				ID:   b.ID,
 				// Each bridge is required to be assigned a unique chassis id > 0
 				Chassis: idx + 1,
-				SHPC:    true,
+				SHPC:    false,
 				Addr:    strconv.FormatInt(int64(bridges[idx].Addr), 10),
+				// Certain guest BIOS versions think
+				// !SHPC means no hotplug, and won't
+				// reserve the IO and memory windows
+				// that will be needed for devices
+				// added underneath this bridge.  This
+				// will only break for certain
+				// combinations of exact qemu, BIOS
+				// and guest kernel versions, but for
+				// consistency, just hint the usual
+				// default windows for a bridge (as
+				// the BIOS would use with SHPC) so
+				// that we can do ACPI hotplug.
+				IOReserve:     "4k",
+				MemReserve:    "1m",
+				Pref64Reserve: "1m",
 			},
 		)
 	}
diff --git a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/qemu_amd64_test.go b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/qemu_amd64_test.go
index 106abf31c5..4b8d044819 100644
--- a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/qemu_amd64_test.go
+++ b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/qemu_amd64_test.go
@@ -187,12 +187,15 @@ func TestQemuAmd64AppendBridges(t *testing.T) {
 
 	expectedOut := []govmmQemu.Device{
 		govmmQemu.BridgeDevice{
-			Type:    govmmQemu.PCIBridge,
-			Bus:     defaultBridgeBus,
-			ID:      bridges[0].ID,
-			Chassis: 1,
-			SHPC:    true,
-			Addr:    "2",
+			Type:          govmmQemu.PCIBridge,
+			Bus:           defaultBridgeBus,
+			ID:            bridges[0].ID,
+			Chassis:       1,
+			SHPC:          false,
+			Addr:          "2",
+			IOReserve:     "4k",
+			MemReserve:    "1m",
+			Pref64Reserve: "1m",
 		},
 	}
 
diff --git a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/qemu_arch_base_test.go b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/qemu_arch_base_test.go
index 1cd904864b..4b495f73d9 100644
--- a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/qemu_arch_base_test.go
+++ b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/qemu_arch_base_test.go
@@ -307,12 +307,15 @@ func TestQemuArchBaseAppendBridges(t *testing.T) {
 
 	expectedOut := []govmmQemu.Device{
 		govmmQemu.BridgeDevice{
-			Type:    govmmQemu.PCIBridge,
-			Bus:     defaultBridgeBus,
-			ID:      bridges[0].ID,
-			Chassis: 1,
-			SHPC:    true,
-			Addr:    "2",
+			Type:          govmmQemu.PCIBridge,
+			Bus:           defaultBridgeBus,
+			ID:            bridges[0].ID,
+			Chassis:       1,
+			SHPC:          false,
+			Addr:          "2",
+			IOReserve:     "4k",
+			MemReserve:    "1m",
+			Pref64Reserve: "1m",
 		},
 	}
 
diff --git a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/qemu_arm64_test.go b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/qemu_arm64_test.go
index e421aa79b4..0d777af41b 100644
--- a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/qemu_arm64_test.go
+++ b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/qemu_arm64_test.go
@@ -78,12 +78,15 @@ func TestQemuArm64AppendBridges(t *testing.T) {
 
 	expectedOut := []govmmQemu.Device{
 		govmmQemu.BridgeDevice{
-			Type:    govmmQemu.PCIBridge,
-			Bus:     defaultBridgeBus,
-			ID:      bridges[0].ID,
-			Chassis: 1,
-			SHPC:    true,
-			Addr:    "2",
+			Type:          govmmQemu.PCIBridge,
+			Bus:           defaultBridgeBus,
+			ID:            bridges[0].ID,
+			Chassis:       1,
+			SHPC:          false,
+			Addr:          "2",
+			IOReserve:     "4k",
+			MemReserve:    "1m",
+			Pref64Reserve: "1m",
 		},
 	}