diff --git a/src/runtime-rs/crates/hypervisor/src/dragonball/inner_device.rs b/src/runtime-rs/crates/hypervisor/src/dragonball/inner_device.rs
index 4e16cd070e..d4b9b0a8a6 100644
--- a/src/runtime-rs/crates/hypervisor/src/dragonball/inner_device.rs
+++ b/src/runtime-rs/crates/hypervisor/src/dragonball/inner_device.rs
@@ -359,6 +359,7 @@ impl DragonballInner {
             queue_size: Some(config.queue_size as u16),
             backend: dragonball::api::v1::Backend::VhostUser(DragonballVhostUserConfig {
                 sock_path: config.socket_path.clone(),
+                ..Default::default()
             }),
             guest_mac,
             use_shared_irq: None,
diff --git a/src/runtime-rs/crates/resource/src/network/endpoint/vhost_user_endpoint.rs b/src/runtime-rs/crates/resource/src/network/endpoint/vhost_user_endpoint.rs
index 15d47f46c1..4ecdda99d9 100644
--- a/src/runtime-rs/crates/resource/src/network/endpoint/vhost_user_endpoint.rs
+++ b/src/runtime-rs/crates/resource/src/network/endpoint/vhost_user_endpoint.rs
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ impl VhostUserEndpoint {
 
     fn get_network_config(&self) -> VhostUserConfig {
         VhostUserConfig {
+            // Name the device after the virt interface, as the virtio-net and
+            // vhost-net paths do, so the hypervisor identifies it by a name
+            // the runtime knows rather than by its socket path.
+            dev_id: self.name.clone(),
             socket_path: self.socket_path.clone(),
             mac_address: self.guest_mac.clone(),
             device_type: VhostUserType::Net,