diff --git a/boards/arm64/qemu/qemu-armv8a/configs/mte/defconfig b/boards/arm64/qemu/qemu-armv8a/configs/mte/defconfig
index 40267bf2eea56..4f2c1bf0c8712 100644
--- a/boards/arm64/qemu/qemu-armv8a/configs/mte/defconfig
+++ b/boards/arm64/qemu/qemu-armv8a/configs/mte/defconfig
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 # You can then do "make savedefconfig" to generate a new defconfig file that includes your
 # modifications.
 #
+# CONFIG_ARCH_FPU is not set
+CONFIG_ALLSYMS=y
 CONFIG_ARCH="arm64"
 CONFIG_ARCH_ARM64=y
 CONFIG_ARCH_AS_HAS_ARMV8_5=y
@@ -22,10 +24,15 @@ CONFIG_BUILTIN=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_ASSERTIONS=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_FEATURES=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_FULLOPT=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_MM=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_MM_ERROR=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_MM_INFO=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_MM_WARN=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_SCHED=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_SCHED_ERROR=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_SCHED_WARN=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_SYMBOLS=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_SYMBOLS_LEVEL="-g3"
 CONFIG_DEFAULT_TASK_STACKSIZE=8192
 CONFIG_DEVICE_TREE=y
 CONFIG_EXAMPLES_HELLO=y
@@ -42,13 +49,17 @@ CONFIG_IDLETHREAD_STACKSIZE=8192
 CONFIG_INIT_ENTRYPOINT="nsh_main"
 CONFIG_INTELHEX_BINARY=y
 CONFIG_LIBC_EXECFUNCS=y
+CONFIG_LIBC_FLOATINGPOINT=y
 CONFIG_LIBC_MEMFD_ERROR=y
+CONFIG_MM_KASAN=y
+CONFIG_MM_KASAN_MTE_TAGS=y
 CONFIG_NSH_ARCHINIT=y
 CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS=y
 CONFIG_NSH_FILEIOSIZE=512
 CONFIG_NSH_READLINE=y
 CONFIG_PREALLOC_TIMERS=4
 CONFIG_PROFILE_MINI=y
+CONFIG_PTHREAD_SPINLOCKS=y
 CONFIG_PTHREAD_STACK_MIN=8192
 CONFIG_RAMLOG=y
 CONFIG_RAM_SIZE=134217728
@@ -68,6 +79,8 @@ CONFIG_SYSTEM_NSH=y
 CONFIG_SYSTEM_SYSTEM=y
 CONFIG_SYSTEM_TIME64=y
 CONFIG_TESTING_GETPRIME=y
+CONFIG_TESTING_KASAN=y
+CONFIG_TESTING_MTE=y
 CONFIG_TESTING_OSTEST=y
 CONFIG_UART1_BASE=0x9000000
 CONFIG_UART1_IRQ=33