diff --git a/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/files/memfd.patch b/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/files/memfd.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..62e8d38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/files/memfd.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+Upstream-Status: Backport
+Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
+
+From 75e5b70e6b5dcc4f2219992d7cffa462aa406af0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
+Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 11:51:27 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] memfd: fix configure test
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Recent glibc added memfd_create in sys/mman.h.  This conflicts with
+the definition in util/memfd.c:
+
+    /builddir/build/BUILD/qemu-2.11.0-rc1/util/memfd.c:40:12: error: static declaration of memfd_create follows non-static declaration
+
+Fix the configure test, and remove the sys/memfd.h inclusion since the
+file actually does not exist---it is a typo in the memfd_create(2) man
+page.
+
+Cc: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
+Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
+---
+ configure    | 2 +-
+ util/memfd.c | 4 +---
+ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/configure b/configure
+index 9c8aa5a98b..99ccc1725a 100755
+--- a/configure
++++ b/configure
+@@ -3923,7 +3923,7 @@ fi
+ # check if memfd is supported
+ memfd=no
+ cat > $TMPC << EOF
+-#include <sys/memfd.h>
++#include <sys/mman.h>
+ 
+ int main(void)
+ {
+diff --git a/util/memfd.c b/util/memfd.c
+index 4571d1aba8..412e94a405 100644
+--- a/util/memfd.c
++++ b/util/memfd.c
+@@ -31,9 +31,7 @@
+ 
+ #include "qemu/memfd.h"
+ 
+-#ifdef CONFIG_MEMFD
+-#include <sys/memfd.h>
+-#elif defined CONFIG_LINUX
++#if defined CONFIG_LINUX && !defined CONFIG_MEMFD
+ #include <sys/syscall.h>
+ #include <asm/unistd.h>
+ 
+-- 
+2.11.0
diff --git a/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/files/qemu-system-aarch64-multiarch b/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/files/qemu-system-aarch64-multiarch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..15124c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/files/qemu-system-aarch64-multiarch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+BINPATH=$(dirname $0)
+MACHINE_PATH=$(mktemp -d)
+
+APU_ARGS=
+PMU_ARGS=
+
+while [ ! -z "$1" ]; do
+	if [ "$1" = "-pmu-args" ]; then
+		PMU_ARGS+=" $2"
+		shift
+	else
+		APU_ARGS+=" $1"
+	fi
+	shift
+done
+
+PMU_ROM=$(last=; for i in $PMU_ARGS; do if [ "$last" = "-kernel" ]; then echo "$i"; break; fi; last=$i; done)
+if [ ! -e $PMU_ROM ]; then
+	echo "------"
+	echo "Error: Missing PMU ROM - $PMU_ROM"
+	echo "    See 'meta-xilinx/README.qemu.md' for more information on accquiring the PMU ROM."
+	echo "------"
+	exit 255
+fi
+
+# start the PMU instance
+$BINPATH/qemu-system-microblazeel $PMU_ARGS -machine-path $MACHINE_PATH &
+# start the APU instance
+$BINPATH/qemu-system-aarch64 $APU_ARGS -machine-path $MACHINE_PATH
+