diff --git a/common.sh b/common.sh
index 387614e45f..37cee5e809 100644
--- a/common.sh
+++ b/common.sh
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ fi
 # Turn on bash debug support if available for backtraces.
 shopt -s extdebug 2>/dev/null
 
+# Source qemu library path
+. /etc/profile.d/qemu-aarch64.sh 2> /dev/null || true
+
 # Output a backtrace all the way back to the raw invocation, suppressing
 # only the _dump_trace frame itself.
 _dump_trace() {
@@ -936,6 +939,8 @@ setup_qemu_static() {
     arm64-usr)
       if [[ -f "${root_fs_dir}/sbin/ldconfig" ]]; then
         sudo cp /usr/bin/qemu-aarch64 "${root_fs_dir}"/usr/bin/qemu-aarch64-static
+        echo export QEMU_LD_PREFIX=\"/build/arm64-usr/\" | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/qemu-aarch64.sh
+        . /etc/profile.d/qemu-aarch64.sh
       else
         die "Missing basic layout in target rootfs"
       fi