diff --git a/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_physical_device.c b/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_physical_device.c
index 13565312c5b..05e8d54fa33 100644
--- a/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_physical_device.c
+++ b/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_physical_device.c
@@ -1178,8 +1178,7 @@ vn_physical_device_get_native_extensions(
    }
 
 #ifdef VN_USE_WSI_PLATFORM
-   if (can_external_mem &&
-       physical_dev->renderer_sync_fd.semaphore_importable) {
+   if (physical_dev->renderer_sync_fd.semaphore_importable) {
       exts->KHR_incremental_present = true;
       exts->KHR_swapchain = true;
       exts->KHR_swapchain_mutable_format = true;
diff --git a/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_wsi.c b/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_wsi.c
index dec3940cda1..33cd2de532b 100644
--- a/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_wsi.c
+++ b/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_wsi.c
@@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ vn_wsi_init(struct vn_physical_device *physical_dev)
       &physical_dev->wsi_device, vn_physical_device_to_handle(physical_dev),
       vn_wsi_proc_addr, alloc, -1, &physical_dev->instance->dri_options,
       &(struct wsi_device_options){
-         .sw_device = false,
+         .sw_device = !physical_dev->base.vk.supported_extensions
+                          .EXT_external_memory_dma_buf,
          .extra_xwayland_image = true,
       });
    if (result != VK_SUCCESS)