diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index dce8f2d3f5..d9a90f795d 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ build-tci:
  - ../configure --enable-tcg-interpreter
       --target-list="$(for tg in $TARGETS; do echo -n ${tg}'-softmmu '; done)"
  - make -j2
+ - make run-tcg-tests-x86_64-softmmu
  - make tests/qtest/boot-serial-test tests/qtest/cdrom-test tests/qtest/pxe-test
  - for tg in $TARGETS ; do
      export QTEST_QEMU_BINARY="${tg}-softmmu/qemu-system-${tg}" ;
diff --git a/tests/data/acpi/rebuild-expected-aml.sh b/tests/data/acpi/rebuild-expected-aml.sh
index f89d4624bc..d44e511533 100755
--- a/tests/data/acpi/rebuild-expected-aml.sh
+++ b/tests/data/acpi/rebuild-expected-aml.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 qemu_bins="x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64"
 
-if [ ! -e "tests/bios-tables-test" ]; then
+if [ ! -e "tests/qtest/bios-tables-test" ]; then
     echo "Test: bios-tables-test is required! Run make check before this script."
     echo "Run this script from the build directory."
     exit 1;
@@ -26,11 +26,11 @@ for qemu in $qemu_bins; do
         echo "Also, run this script from the build directory."
         exit 1;
     fi
-    TEST_ACPI_REBUILD_AML=y QTEST_QEMU_BINARY=$qemu tests/bios-tables-test
+    TEST_ACPI_REBUILD_AML=y QTEST_QEMU_BINARY=$qemu tests/qtest/bios-tables-test
 done
 
 eval `grep SRC_PATH= config-host.mak`
 
-echo '/* List of comma-separated changed AML files to ignore */' > ${SRC_PATH}/tests/bios-tables-test-allowed-diff.h
+echo '/* List of comma-separated changed AML files to ignore */' > ${SRC_PATH}/tests/qtest/bios-tables-test-allowed-diff.h
 
 echo "The files were rebuilt and can be added to git."
diff --git a/tests/qtest/migration-test.c b/tests/qtest/migration-test.c
index 53afec4395..341d190922 100644
--- a/tests/qtest/migration-test.c
+++ b/tests/qtest/migration-test.c
@@ -480,14 +480,14 @@ static int test_migrate_start(QTestState **from, QTestState **to,
     } else if (strcmp(arch, "ppc64") == 0) {
         machine_opts = "vsmt=8";
         memory_size = "256M";
+        start_address = PPC_TEST_MEM_START;
+        end_address = PPC_TEST_MEM_END;
         arch_source = g_strdup_printf("-nodefaults "
                                       "-prom-env 'use-nvramrc?=true' -prom-env "
                                       "'nvramrc=hex .\" _\" begin %x %x "
                                       "do i c@ 1 + i c! 1000 +loop .\" B\" 0 "
                                       "until'", end_address, start_address);
         arch_target = g_strdup("");
-        start_address = PPC_TEST_MEM_START;
-        end_address = PPC_TEST_MEM_END;
     } else if (strcmp(arch, "aarch64") == 0) {
         init_bootfile(bootpath, aarch64_kernel, sizeof(aarch64_kernel));
         machine_opts = "virt,gic-version=max";
diff --git a/tests/qtest/vhost-user-test.c b/tests/qtest/vhost-user-test.c
index 2324b964ad..9ee0f1e4fd 100644
--- a/tests/qtest/vhost-user-test.c
+++ b/tests/qtest/vhost-user-test.c
@@ -707,9 +707,9 @@ static void test_read_guest_mem(void *obj, void *arg, QGuestAllocator *alloc)
 static void test_migrate(void *obj, void *arg, QGuestAllocator *alloc)
 {
     TestServer *s = arg;
-    TestServer *dest = test_server_new("dest");
-    GString *dest_cmdline = g_string_new(qos_get_current_command_line());
-    char *uri = g_strdup_printf("%s%s", "unix:", dest->mig_path);
+    TestServer *dest;
+    GString *dest_cmdline;
+    char *uri;
     QTestState *to;
     GSource *source;
     QDict *rsp;
@@ -720,6 +720,10 @@ static void test_migrate(void *obj, void *arg, QGuestAllocator *alloc)
         return;
     }
 
+    dest = test_server_new("dest");
+    dest_cmdline = g_string_new(qos_get_current_command_line());
+    uri = g_strdup_printf("%s%s", "unix:", dest->mig_path);
+
     size = get_log_size(s);
     g_assert_cmpint(size, ==, (256 * 1024 * 1024) / (VHOST_LOG_PAGE * 8));
 
@@ -778,6 +782,7 @@ static void test_migrate(void *obj, void *arg, QGuestAllocator *alloc)
     qtest_quit(to);
     test_server_free(dest);
     g_free(uri);
+    g_string_free(dest_cmdline, true);
 }
 
 static void wait_for_rings_started(TestServer *s, size_t count)