diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/wic.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/wic.py
index e45594fdc8..77f1bdcfa9 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/wic.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/wic.py
@@ -210,12 +210,12 @@ class Wic(oeSelfTest):
     def test_build_artifacts(self):
         """Test wic create directdisk providing all artifacts."""
         bbvars = dict((var.lower(), get_bb_var(var, 'core-image-minimal'))
-                      for var in ('STAGING_DATADIR', 'DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE',
-                                  'STAGING_DIR_NATIVE', 'IMAGE_ROOTFS'))
+                      for var in ('STAGING_DATADIR', 'DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE', 'IMAGE_ROOTFS'))
+        bbvars['recipe_sysroot_native'] = get_bb_var('RECIPE_SYSROOT_NATIVE', 'wic-tools')
         status = runCmd("wic create directdisk "
                         "-b %(staging_datadir)s "
                         "-k %(deploy_dir_image)s "
-                        "-n %(staging_dir_native)s "
+                        "-n %(recipe_sysroot_native)s "
                         "-r %(image_rootfs)s" % bbvars).status
         self.assertEqual(0, status)
         self.assertEqual(1, len(glob(self.resultdir + "directdisk-*.direct")))
@@ -301,13 +301,13 @@ class Wic(oeSelfTest):
     def test_rootfs_artifacts(self):
         """Test usage of rootfs plugin with rootfs paths"""
         bbvars = dict((var.lower(), get_bb_var(var, 'core-image-minimal'))
-                      for var in ('STAGING_DATADIR', 'DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE',
-                                  'STAGING_DIR_NATIVE', 'IMAGE_ROOTFS'))
+                      for var in ('STAGING_DATADIR', 'DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE', 'IMAGE_ROOTFS'))
+        bbvars['recipe_sysroot_native'] = get_bb_var('RECIPE_SYSROOT_NATIVE', 'wic-tools')
         bbvars['wks'] = "directdisk-multi-rootfs"
         status = runCmd("wic create %(wks)s "
                         "--bootimg-dir=%(staging_datadir)s "
                         "--kernel-dir=%(deploy_dir_image)s "
-                        "--native-sysroot=%(staging_dir_native)s "
+                        "--native-sysroot=%(recipe_sysroot_native)s "
                         "--rootfs-dir rootfs1=%(image_rootfs)s "
                         "--rootfs-dir rootfs2=%(image_rootfs)s"
                         % bbvars).status
diff --git a/scripts/wic b/scripts/wic
index 1ad16665e7..f09dbc2e00 100755
--- a/scripts/wic
+++ b/scripts/wic
@@ -175,8 +175,7 @@ def wic_create_subcommand(args, usage_str):
 
         rootfs_dir = get_bitbake_var("IMAGE_ROOTFS", options.image_name)
         kernel_dir = get_bitbake_var("DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE", options.image_name)
-        native_sysroot = get_bitbake_var("STAGING_DIR_NATIVE",
-                                         options.image_name)
+        native_sysroot = os.path.join(get_bitbake_var("RECIPE_SYSROOT_NATIVE", "wic-tools"))
     else:
         if options.build_rootfs:
             print("Image name is not specified, exiting. (Use -e/--image-name to specify it)\n")