diff --git a/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_physical_device.c b/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_physical_device.c
index 27235d83192..73102ce020c 100644
--- a/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_physical_device.c
+++ b/src/virtio/vulkan/vn_physical_device.c
@@ -1101,6 +1101,17 @@ vn_physical_device_get_passthrough_extensions(
 {
    struct vn_renderer *renderer = physical_dev->instance->renderer;
 
+#if DETECT_OS_ANDROID || defined(VN_USE_WSI_PLATFORM)
+   /* WSI support currently requires semaphore sync fd import for
+    * VK_KHR_synchronization2 for code simplicity. This requirement can be
+    * dropped by implementing external semaphore purely on the driver side
+    * (aka no corresponding renderer side object).
+    */
+   const bool can_sync2 = physical_dev->renderer_sync_fd.semaphore_importable;
+#else
+   static const bool can_sync2 = true;
+#endif
+
    *exts = (struct vk_device_extension_table){
       /* promoted to VK_VERSION_1_1 */
       .KHR_16bit_storage = true,
@@ -1156,11 +1167,7 @@ vn_physical_device_get_passthrough_extensions(
       .KHR_shader_integer_dot_product = true,
       .KHR_shader_non_semantic_info = true,
       .KHR_shader_terminate_invocation = true,
-      /* Our implementation requires semaphore sync fd import
-       * for VK_KHR_synchronization2.
-       */
-      .KHR_synchronization2 =
-         physical_dev->renderer_sync_fd.semaphore_importable,
+      .KHR_synchronization2 = can_sync2,
       .KHR_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory = true,
       .EXT_4444_formats = true,
       .EXT_extended_dynamic_state = true,