Systems and methods for delivering certain types of interrupts to virtual machines executing privileged virtual machine functions. An example method may comprise: receiving, by a hypervisor being executed by a processing device of a host computer system, a request to send an interrupt to a virtual central processing unit (vCPU) of a virtual machine; responsive to detecting that the vCPU is executing a virtual machine (VM) function, monitoring the vCPU for completion of the VM function; and responsive to detecting that execution of the VM function is complete, delivering the interrupt to the vCPU.