diff --git a/dev-qt/qtvirtualkeyboard/Manifest b/dev-qt/qtvirtualkeyboard/Manifest
index 974cda3feb059..397bc8e6a43fa 100644
--- a/dev-qt/qtvirtualkeyboard/Manifest
+++ b/dev-qt/qtvirtualkeyboard/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST qtvirtualkeyboard-everywhere-opensource-src-5.15.16.tar.xz 10951872 BLAKE2B 5e05b68162e779df73c209f959bb641b7c4eb20badf8299fa7277c99b86e4462fe6d5f98c2c9ae1bc49f4995b61eb0132428409a3286d24232f20cb214686996 SHA512 af7ca963784773b94bfed000cabf5dbfb6363211d6b2601ccb6aed26eccd2eaa1e34dc8e7a6f1bbc678432f4086284df82c66e8da1c7fc7c8f5ec37983f687b9
 DIST qtvirtualkeyboard-everywhere-src-6.8.2.tar.xz 3264624 BLAKE2B 8cd1f41428f7472faeb8ebf728f0d2770605dc88070a9a389ca80cc5a02d3624aa49202586f3a471ccba442ec159985c76d4642a72e0df6abf91520aab71b638 SHA512 047ea1f7c6c43bb4ddaea67f46819e61e878419c9dda599198cccf80bb53b002d79c44d0ce1df5727711ba45d0528400bc6643d3a9a9b0cc608497558c3013b2
+DIST qtvirtualkeyboard-everywhere-src-6.9.0-rc.tar.xz 3270332 BLAKE2B 365d454e1df414be3efb05d638f287c36722f92b4f2cc0bbec64af0b447eb8a5234e0aef5b4ce5c9b3b2a642e6785ee66ccb86b6fda7b4d20881866670e315e3 SHA512 e68c242ffc245c5092f4ba2f241a61e7d37d395274cef54af09298c00a95f0fdb3c6b02fb6167ecce2353973d1ed29393fe6ea212c3cd8e68461d145cae53dfa
diff --git a/dev-qt/qtvirtualkeyboard/qtvirtualkeyboard-6.9.0_rc.ebuild b/dev-qt/qtvirtualkeyboard/qtvirtualkeyboard-6.9.0_rc.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..accb2ea78ae5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-qt/qtvirtualkeyboard/qtvirtualkeyboard-6.9.0_rc.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# Copyright 2023-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit qt6-build
+
+DESCRIPTION="Customizable input framework and virtual keyboard for Qt"
+
+if [[ ${QT6_BUILD_TYPE} == release ]]; then
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~loong ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
+fi
+
+IUSE="+sound +spell"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	~dev-qt/qtbase-${PV}:6[gui]
+	~dev-qt/qtdeclarative-${PV}:6
+	~dev-qt/qtsvg-${PV}:6
+	sound? ( ~dev-qt/qtmultimedia-${PV}:6 )
+	spell? ( app-text/hunspell:= )
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+src_configure() {
+	local mycmakeargs=(
+		$(cmake_use_find_package sound Qt6Multimedia)
+		$(qt_feature spell hunspell)
+		-DINPUT_vkb_handwriting=no # neither cerence nor myscript are packaged
+	)
+
+	qt6-build_src_configure
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	local CMAKE_SKIP_TESTS=(
+		# rarely randomly(?) fails even with -j1
+		tst_layoutfilesystem
+	)
+
+	if use spell && has_version app-dicts/myspell-en; then
+		# 99% pass but minor sub-tests fail with myspell-en, needs looking into
+		ewarn "Warning: notable tests were skipped due to ${_} being installed"
+		CMAKE_SKIP_TESTS+=(
+			tst_inputpanel
+			tst_inputpanelcontrols2
+		)
+	else
+		einfo "tst_inputpanel can take >5mins, not known to actually hang"
+	fi
+
+	qt6-build_src_test
+}