diff --git a/packages/vite-node/src/cli.ts b/packages/vite-node/src/cli.ts
index 0b49d5cc3..ebae45bc6 100644
--- a/packages/vite-node/src/cli.ts
+++ b/packages/vite-node/src/cli.ts
@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ async function run(files: string[], options: CliOptions = {}) {
   if (Number(viteVersion.split('.')[0]) < 6) {
     await server.pluginContainer.buildStart({})
   }
+  else {
+    // directly access client plugin container until https://github.com/vitejs/vite/issues/19607
+    await server.environments.client.pluginContainer.buildStart({})
+  }
 
   const env = loadEnv(server.config.mode, server.config.envDir, '')
 
diff --git a/test/vite-node/test/cli.test.ts b/test/vite-node/test/cli.test.ts
index 382b8cd95..de28516c8 100644
--- a/test/vite-node/test/cli.test.ts
+++ b/test/vite-node/test/cli.test.ts
@@ -64,3 +64,13 @@ it('buildStart', async () => {
   const result = await runViteNodeCli('--root', root, resolve(root, 'test.ts'))
   await result.viteNode.waitForStdout('["buildStart:in","buildStart:out"]')
 })
+
+it('buildStart with all ssr', async () => {
+  const root = resolve(__dirname, '../src/buildStart')
+  const result = await runViteNodeCli(
+    `--root=${root}`,
+    '--options.transformMode.ssr=.*',
+    resolve(root, 'test.ts'),
+  )
+  await result.viteNode.waitForStdout('["buildStart:in","buildStart:out"]')
+})