diff --git a/poky/meta-selftest/recipes-test/images/oe-selftest-image.bb b/poky/meta-selftest/recipes-test/images/oe-selftest-image.bb
index 5d4d10e..e295943 100644
--- a/poky/meta-selftest/recipes-test/images/oe-selftest-image.bb
+++ b/poky/meta-selftest/recipes-test/images/oe-selftest-image.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "An image used during oe-selftest tests"
 
-IMAGE_INSTALL = "packagegroup-core-boot dropbear"
+# libudev is needed for deploy mdadm via devtool
+IMAGE_INSTALL = "packagegroup-core-boot dropbear libudev"
 IMAGE_FEATURES = "debug-tweaks"
 
 IMAGE_LINGUAS = " "