diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 7dd71e0a2d..66ddbda9c9 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -2035,6 +2035,7 @@ M: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
 R: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
 S: Maintained
 F: qtest.c
+F: accel/qtest.c
 F: tests/libqtest.*
 F: tests/libqos/
 F: tests/*-test.c
diff --git a/accel/Makefile.objs b/accel/Makefile.objs
index c3718a10c5..2a5ed46940 100644
--- a/accel/Makefile.objs
+++ b/accel/Makefile.objs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 obj-$(CONFIG_SOFTMMU) += accel.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_SOFTMMU) += qtest.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_KVM) += kvm/
 obj-$(CONFIG_TCG) += tcg/
 obj-y += stubs/
diff --git a/accel/qtest.c b/accel/qtest.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a02b3c26c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/accel/qtest.c
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+/*
+ * QTest accelerator code
+ *
+ * Copyright IBM, Corp. 2011
+ *
+ * Authors:
+ *  Anthony Liguori   <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ *
+ */
+
+#include "qemu/osdep.h"
+#include "qapi/error.h"
+#include "qemu/module.h"
+#include "qemu/option.h"
+#include "qemu/config-file.h"
+#include "sysemu/accel.h"
+#include "sysemu/qtest.h"
+#include "sysemu/cpus.h"
+
+static int qtest_init_accel(MachineState *ms)
+{
+    QemuOpts *opts = qemu_opts_create(qemu_find_opts("icount"), NULL, 0,
+                                      &error_abort);
+    qemu_opt_set(opts, "shift", "0", &error_abort);
+    configure_icount(opts, &error_abort);
+    qemu_opts_del(opts);
+    return 0;
+}
+
+static void qtest_accel_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
+{
+    AccelClass *ac = ACCEL_CLASS(oc);
+    ac->name = "QTest";
+    ac->available = qtest_available;
+    ac->init_machine = qtest_init_accel;
+    ac->allowed = &qtest_allowed;
+}
+
+#define TYPE_QTEST_ACCEL ACCEL_CLASS_NAME("qtest")
+
+static const TypeInfo qtest_accel_type = {
+    .name = TYPE_QTEST_ACCEL,
+    .parent = TYPE_ACCEL,
+    .class_init = qtest_accel_class_init,
+};
+
+static void qtest_type_init(void)
+{
+    type_register_static(&qtest_accel_type);
+}
+
+type_init(qtest_type_init);
diff --git a/qtest.c b/qtest.c
index 527141785f..f2e2f27778 100644
--- a/qtest.c
+++ b/qtest.c
@@ -749,16 +749,6 @@ static void qtest_event(void *opaque, int event)
     }
 }
 
-static int qtest_init_accel(MachineState *ms)
-{
-    QemuOpts *opts = qemu_opts_create(qemu_find_opts("icount"), NULL, 0,
-                                      &error_abort);
-    qemu_opt_set(opts, "shift", "0", &error_abort);
-    configure_icount(opts, &error_abort);
-    qemu_opts_del(opts);
-    return 0;
-}
-
 void qtest_init(const char *qtest_chrdev, const char *qtest_log, Error **errp)
 {
     Chardev *chr;
@@ -791,27 +781,3 @@ bool qtest_driver(void)
 {
     return qtest_chr.chr != NULL;
 }
-
-static void qtest_accel_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
-{
-    AccelClass *ac = ACCEL_CLASS(oc);
-    ac->name = "QTest";
-    ac->available = qtest_available;
-    ac->init_machine = qtest_init_accel;
-    ac->allowed = &qtest_allowed;
-}
-
-#define TYPE_QTEST_ACCEL ACCEL_CLASS_NAME("qtest")
-
-static const TypeInfo qtest_accel_type = {
-    .name = TYPE_QTEST_ACCEL,
-    .parent = TYPE_ACCEL,
-    .class_init = qtest_accel_class_init,
-};
-
-static void qtest_type_init(void)
-{
-    type_register_static(&qtest_accel_type);
-}
-
-type_init(qtest_type_init);