diff --git a/src/runtime-rs/crates/hypervisor/src/qemu/machine/tests.rs b/src/runtime-rs/crates/hypervisor/src/qemu/machine/tests.rs
index df4df47048..cbf6b24602 100644
--- a/src/runtime-rs/crates/hypervisor/src/qemu/machine/tests.rs
+++ b/src/runtime-rs/crates/hypervisor/src/qemu/machine/tests.rs
@@ -192,6 +192,28 @@ fn with_hugepages_preserves_egm_backends() {
     ));
 }
 
+// ---- Q35 x86_64: vanilla kata, 2-socket NUMA, 8 pre-provisioned root ports ----
+//
+// Production capture: DGX x86 host, 2026-07-07.  65 vCPUs, 73728M total,
+// 36864M per socket pinned to host NUMA node via /dev/shm.  8 pcie-root-ports
+// pre-provisioned on pcie.0 for GPU hotplug.
+//
+// Blocked on Phase 3:
+//   - Q35 machine in Platform::to_qemu_args (no gic-version, no highmem-mmio-size)
+//   - MemoryBackend::File { host_nodes, policy } fields for NUMA SHM pinning
+//   - Objects::numa_distances for -numa dist entries
+//   - HostTopology fields for NUMA node + SHM path per socket
+
+#[test]
+#[ignore = "Phase 3: Q35 machine + NUMA SHM memory model not yet implemented"]
+fn q35_vanilla_kata_x86() {
+    // HostTopology shape TBD in Phase 3.
+    // 2 sockets: socket 0 cpus 0-32 (host-node 0), socket 1 cpus 33-65 (host-node 1).
+    // No gpu_smmu_groups, no egm_sockets.
+    // 8 pre-provisioned root ports on pcie.0; NUMA distance 20 between the two nodes.
+    todo!("Phase 3")
+}
+
 // ---- Grace Config 1: single GPU, 1 SMMU, 9 NUMA nodes ----
 
 #[test]