diff --git a/test_regress/t/t_virtual_interface_delayed.py b/test_regress/t/t_virtual_interface_delayed.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# DESCRIPTION: Verilator: Verilog Test driver/expect definition
+#
+# Copyright 2025 by Wilson Snyder. This program is free software; you
+# can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either the GNU
+# Lesser General Public License Version 3 or the Perl Artistic License
+# Version 2.0.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-only OR Artistic-2.0
+
+import vltest_bootstrap
+
+test.scenarios('simulator')
+
+test.compile(verilator_flags2=['--binary'])
+
+test.execute()
+
+test.passes()
diff --git a/test_regress/t/t_virtual_interface_delayed.v b/test_regress/t/t_virtual_interface_delayed.v
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+// DESCRIPTION: Verilator: Verilog Test module
+//
+// This file ONLY is placed under the Creative Commons Public Domain, for
+// any use, without warranty, 2025 by Wilson Snyder.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
+
+`define stop $stop
+`define checkh(gotv,expv) do if ((gotv) !== (expv)) begin $write("%%Error: %s:%0d:  got=%0x exp=%0x (%s !== %s)\n", `__FILE__,`__LINE__, (gotv), (expv), `"gotv`", `"expv`"); `stop; end while(0);
+
+interface Ifc;
+   bit [7:0] rdata;
+endinterface
+
+class drv_c;
+   virtual Ifc vif;
+
+   virtual task run();
+      #100;
+      `checkh(vif.rdata, 8'haa);
+      #100;
+      `checkh(vif.rdata, 8'haa);
+      #100;
+   endtask
+endclass
+
+module dut (output wire [7:0] rd_val);
+   assign rd_val = 8'haa;
+endmodule
+
+module m;
+   drv_c d_0;
+
+   Ifc u_Ifc ();
+   dut u_dut (.rd_val (u_Ifc.rdata));
+
+   initial begin
+      d_0 = new();
+      d_0.vif = u_Ifc;
+      //u_Ifc.rdata = 10;
+      d_0.run();
+      $write("*-* All Finished *-*\n");
+      $finish(2);
+   end
+endmodule