diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-helper-native_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-helper-native_1.0.bb
index 8d27c4db61..27d53157db 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-helper-native_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-helper-native_1.0.bb
@@ -19,3 +19,7 @@ do_install() {
 	install -d ${D}${bindir}
 	install tunctl ${D}${bindir}/
 }
+
+RM_WORK_EXCLUDE_ITEMS += "recipe-sysroot-native"
+DEPENDS += "qemu-native"
+addtask addto_recipe_sysroot after do_populate_sysroot before do_build