diff --git a/hw/acpi/aml-build.c b/hw/acpi/aml-build.c
index c4120ef6096155cccb120faf880f6793ea39ae89..95f9af9f943287709bd86ce1abd04efb0b02cf18 100644
--- a/hw/acpi/aml-build.c
+++ b/hw/acpi/aml-build.c
@@ -910,17 +910,30 @@ Aml *aml_field(const char *name, AmlAccessType type, AmlUpdateRule rule)
     return var;
 }
 
-/* ACPI 1.0b: 16.2.5.2 Named Objects Encoding: DefCreateDWordField */
-Aml *aml_create_dword_field(Aml *srcbuf, Aml *index, const char *name)
+static
+Aml *create_field_common(int opcode, Aml *srcbuf, Aml *index, const char *name)
 {
-    Aml *var = aml_alloc();
-    build_append_byte(var->buf, 0x8A); /* CreateDWordFieldOp */
+    Aml *var = aml_opcode(opcode);
     aml_append(var, srcbuf);
     aml_append(var, index);
     build_append_namestring(var->buf, "%s", name);
     return var;
 }
 
+/* ACPI 1.0b: 16.2.5.2 Named Objects Encoding: DefCreateDWordField */
+Aml *aml_create_dword_field(Aml *srcbuf, Aml *index, const char *name)
+{
+    return create_field_common(0x8A /* CreateDWordFieldOp */,
+                               srcbuf, index, name);
+}
+
+/* ACPI 2.0a: 17.2.4.2 Named Objects Encoding: DefCreateQWordField */
+Aml *aml_create_qword_field(Aml *srcbuf, Aml *index, const char *name)
+{
+    return create_field_common(0x8F /* CreateQWordFieldOp */,
+                               srcbuf, index, name);
+}
+
 /* ACPI 1.0b: 16.2.3 Data Objects Encoding: String */
 Aml *aml_string(const char *name_format, ...)
 {
diff --git a/include/hw/acpi/aml-build.h b/include/hw/acpi/aml-build.h
index 4831c5536f9a143fce922a8079c9d88e65f5a3e8..4acc4d01a44b66080b703eefabd5f807a8a3944a 100644
--- a/include/hw/acpi/aml-build.h
+++ b/include/hw/acpi/aml-build.h
@@ -308,6 +308,7 @@ Aml *aml_mutex(const char *name, uint8_t sync_level);
 Aml *aml_acquire(Aml *mutex, uint16_t timeout);
 Aml *aml_release(Aml *mutex);
 Aml *aml_create_dword_field(Aml *srcbuf, Aml *index, const char *name);
+Aml *aml_create_qword_field(Aml *srcbuf, Aml *index, const char *name);
 Aml *aml_varpackage(uint32_t num_elements);
 Aml *aml_touuid(const char *uuid);
 Aml *aml_unicode(const char *str);