diff --git a/hw/vfio/common.c b/hw/vfio/common.c
index cd1f4af18abb56ef4f5688b63d2f88f37afbf325..3f31f80b1280f7533baaa87379bd883ec1731124 100644
--- a/hw/vfio/common.c
+++ b/hw/vfio/common.c
@@ -1136,6 +1136,7 @@ static int vfio_connect_container(VFIOGroup *group, AddressSpace *as,
             info.iova_pgsizes = 4096;
         }
         vfio_host_win_add(container, 0, (hwaddr)-1, info.iova_pgsizes);
+        container->pgsizes = info.iova_pgsizes;
     } else if (ioctl(fd, VFIO_CHECK_EXTENSION, VFIO_SPAPR_TCE_IOMMU) ||
                ioctl(fd, VFIO_CHECK_EXTENSION, VFIO_SPAPR_TCE_v2_IOMMU)) {
         struct vfio_iommu_spapr_tce_info info;
@@ -1200,6 +1201,7 @@ static int vfio_connect_container(VFIOGroup *group, AddressSpace *as,
         }
 
         if (v2) {
+            container->pgsizes = info.ddw.pgsizes;
             /*
              * There is a default window in just created container.
              * To make region_add/del simpler, we better remove this
@@ -1214,6 +1216,7 @@ static int vfio_connect_container(VFIOGroup *group, AddressSpace *as,
             }
         } else {
             /* The default table uses 4K pages */
+            container->pgsizes = 0x1000;
             vfio_host_win_add(container, info.dma32_window_start,
                               info.dma32_window_start +
                               info.dma32_window_size - 1,
diff --git a/hw/vfio/spapr.c b/hw/vfio/spapr.c
index 259397c0024c69f37658ac6313218353adb28613..becf71a3fc393daa5d62f4cc18194def32d824dd 100644
--- a/hw/vfio/spapr.c
+++ b/hw/vfio/spapr.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 
 #include "hw/vfio/vfio-common.h"
 #include "hw/hw.h"
+#include "exec/ram_addr.h"
 #include "qemu/error-report.h"
 #include "trace.h"
 
@@ -144,9 +145,27 @@ int vfio_spapr_create_window(VFIOContainer *container,
 {
     int ret;
     IOMMUMemoryRegion *iommu_mr = IOMMU_MEMORY_REGION(section->mr);
-    unsigned pagesize = memory_region_iommu_get_min_page_size(iommu_mr);
+    uint64_t pagesize = memory_region_iommu_get_min_page_size(iommu_mr);
     unsigned entries, pages;
     struct vfio_iommu_spapr_tce_create create = { .argsz = sizeof(create) };
+    long systempagesize = qemu_getrampagesize();
+
+    /*
+     * The host might not support the guest supported IOMMU page size,
+     * so we will use smaller physical IOMMU pages to back them.
+     */
+    if (pagesize > systempagesize) {
+        pagesize = systempagesize;
+    }
+    pagesize = 1ULL << (63 - clz64(container->pgsizes &
+                                   (pagesize | (pagesize - 1))));
+    if (!pagesize) {
+        error_report("Host doesn't support page size 0x%"PRIx64
+                     ", the supported mask is 0x%lx",
+                     memory_region_iommu_get_min_page_size(iommu_mr),
+                     container->pgsizes);
+        return -EINVAL;
+    }
 
     /*
      * FIXME: For VFIO iommu types which have KVM acceleration to
diff --git a/include/hw/vfio/vfio-common.h b/include/hw/vfio/vfio-common.h
index 15ea6c26fdbc347f0dd330afd890297a38fe60be..821def05658f7cff93218c68ca995176b7583cb4 100644
--- a/include/hw/vfio/vfio-common.h
+++ b/include/hw/vfio/vfio-common.h
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ typedef struct VFIOContainer {
     unsigned iommu_type;
     int error;
     bool initialized;
+    unsigned long pgsizes;
     /*
      * This assumes the host IOMMU can support only a single
      * contiguous IOVA window.  We may need to generalize that in