diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.use b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.use
index 32d5b4b6da..e63b18f0af 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.use
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.use
@@ -9,3 +9,7 @@ dev-lang/python sqlite
 
 # only required until gtk-doc and friends is pruned from everyone's SDKs
 dev-libs/libxml2 python
+
+# for qemu
+app-arch/bzip2 static-libs
+