diff --git a/.buildkite/macos-colima.yml b/.buildkite/macos-colima.yml
index 999a9ddd44a..14126c8229e 100644
--- a/.buildkite/macos-colima.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/macos-colima.yml
@@ -14,4 +14,5 @@
       DDEV_TEST_SHARE_CMD: "false"
       DDEV_RUN_GET_TESTS: "false"
       DOCKER_TYPE: "colima"
+      LIMA_SSH_PORT_FORWARDER: "true"
     parallelism: 1
diff --git a/.buildkite/macos-colima_vz.yml b/.buildkite/macos-colima_vz.yml
index fccaa2058ef..089e3f9eb6a 100644
--- a/.buildkite/macos-colima_vz.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/macos-colima_vz.yml
@@ -15,4 +15,5 @@
       DDEV_TEST_SHARE_CMD: "false"
       DDEV_RUN_GET_TESTS: "false"
       DOCKER_TYPE: "colima_vz"
+      LIMA_SSH_PORT_FORWARDER: "true"
     parallelism: 1
diff --git a/.buildkite/macos-lima.yml b/.buildkite/macos-lima.yml
index 1ba82bf1878..4115ba90c3c 100644
--- a/.buildkite/macos-lima.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/macos-lima.yml
@@ -15,4 +15,5 @@
       DDEV_TEST_SHARE_CMD: "false"
       DDEV_RUN_GET_TESTS: "false"
       DOCKER_TYPE: "lima"
+      LIMA_SSH_PORT_FORWARDER: "true"
     parallelism: 1