diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9ecbcbb..b04d862 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -211,9 +211,7 @@ qemu-ga$(EXESUF): QEMU_CFLAGS += -I qga/qapi-generated
 
 gen-out-type = $(subst .,-,$(suffix $@))
 
-ifneq ($(wildcard config-host.mak),)
-include $(SRC_PATH)/tests/Makefile
-endif
+include tests/Makefile
 
 qapi-py = $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/qapi.py $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/ordereddict.py
 
@@ -259,7 +257,7 @@ clean:
 	rm -f $(foreach f,$(GENERATED_SOURCES),$(f) $(f)-timestamp)
 	rm -rf qapi-generated
 	rm -rf qga/qapi-generated
-	$(MAKE) -C tests/tcg clean
+	$(MAKE) check-clean
 	for d in $(ALL_SUBDIRS) $(QEMULIBS) libcacard; do \
 	if test -d $$d; then $(MAKE) -C $$d $@ || exit 1; fi; \
 	rm -f $$d/qemu-options.def; \
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 780b19a..801585c 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -4166,7 +4166,7 @@ DIRS="$DIRS pc-bios/optionrom pc-bios/spapr-rtas"
 DIRS="$DIRS roms/seabios roms/vgabios"
 DIRS="$DIRS qapi-generated"
 DIRS="$DIRS libcacard libcacard/libcacard libcacard/trace"
-FILES="Makefile tests/tcg/Makefile qdict-test-data.txt"
+FILES="Makefile tests/Makefile tests/tcg/Makefile qdict-test-data.txt"
 FILES="$FILES tests/tcg/cris/Makefile tests/tcg/cris/.gdbinit"
 FILES="$FILES tests/tcg/lm32/Makefile libcacard/Makefile"
 FILES="$FILES pc-bios/optionrom/Makefile pc-bios/keymaps"
diff --git a/tests/Makefile b/tests/Makefile
index ca680e5..ef6c9f2 100644
--- a/tests/Makefile
+++ b/tests/Makefile
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ check-help:
 	@echo " make check-unit           Run qobject tests"
 	@echo " make check-block          Run block tests"
 	@echo " make check-report.html    Generates an HTML test report"
+	@echo " make check-clean          Clean the tests"
 	@echo
 	@echo "Please note that HTML reports do not regenerate if the unit tests"
 	@echo "has not changed."
@@ -148,4 +149,10 @@ check-unit: $(patsubst %,check-%, $(check-unit-y))
 check-block: $(patsubst %,check-%, $(check-block-y))
 check: check-unit check-qtest
 
+check-clean:
+	$(MAKE) -C tests/tcg clean
+	rm -f $(check-unit-y)
+	rm -f $(check-qtest-i386-y) $(check-qtest-x86_64-y) $(check-qtest-sparc64-y) $(check-qtest-sparc-y)
+	rm -f tests/*.o
+
 -include $(wildcard tests/*.d)