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 $MACHINE_PATH
+
diff --git a/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-devicetrees.inc b/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-devicetrees.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d4044ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-devicetrees.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+SUMMARY = "Xilinx's hardware device trees required for QEMU"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/xilinx/qemu-devicetrees/"
+LICENSE = "BSD"
+DEPENDS += "dtc-native"
+
+inherit deploy
+
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://Makefile;beginline=1;endline=27;md5=7348b6cbcae69912cb1dee68d6c68d99"
+
+PV = "xilinx-${XILINX_RELEASE_VERSION}+git${SRCPV}"
+
+BRANCH ?= ""
+REPO ?= "git://github.com/Xilinx/qemu-devicetrees.git;protocol=https"
+
+BRANCHARG = "${@['nobranch=1', 'branch=${BRANCH}'][d.getVar('BRANCH', True) != '']}"
+SRC_URI = "${REPO};${BRANCHARG}"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+# Don't need to do anything
+do_install() {
+	:
+}
+
+do_deploy() {
+	# single-arch dtbs
+	for DTS_FILE in ${S}/LATEST/SINGLE_ARCH/*.dtb; do
+		install -Dm 0644 $DTS_FILE ${DEPLOYDIR}/qemu-hw-devicetrees/$(basename $DTS_FILE .dtb).dtb
+	done
+
+	# multi-arch dtbs
+	for DTS_FILE in ${S}/LATEST/MULTI_ARCH/*.dtb; do
+		install -Dm 0644 $DTS_FILE ${DEPLOYDIR}/qemu-hw-devicetrees/multiarch/$(basename $DTS_FILE .dtb).dtb
+	done
+}
+
+addtask deploy after do_install
diff --git a/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-devicetrees_2018.1.bb b/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-devicetrees_2018.1.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a73b9e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-devicetrees_2018.1.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+require qemu-devicetrees.inc
+
+XILINX_RELEASE_VERSION = "v2018.1"
+
+BRANCH ?= "master"
+SRCREV ?= "d5017f8119b6493d8b2fcdfd5caa4e8b16580877"
diff --git a/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-xilinx-helper-native_1.0.bb b/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-xilinx-helper-native_1.0.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..55b35b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-xilinx-helper-native_1.0.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+
+python () {
+    if d.getVar("PREFERRED_PROVIDER_qemu-helper-native") != d.getVar("PN"):
+        raise bb.parse.SkipRecipe("Set qemu-helper-native provider to use this recipe")
+}
+
+def get_filespath_extra(d, subpath):
+    metaroot = next((p for p in d.getVar('BBPATH').split(':') if os.path.basename(p) == 'meta'), None)
+    if metaroot:
+        return os.path.join(metaroot, subpath) + ":"
+    return ""
+
+# TODO: improve this, since it is very hacky that this recipe need to build tunctl.
+# include the existing qemu-helper-native
+require recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-helper-native_1.0.bb
+# get the path to tunctl.c
+FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${@get_filespath_extra(d, 'recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-helper')}"
+
+# provide it, to replace the existing
+PROVIDES += "qemu-helper-native"
+
+# replace qemu with qemu-xilinx
+DEPENDS_remove = "qemu-native"
+DEPENDS_append = " \
+		qemu-xilinx-native \
+		qemu-xilinx-multiarch-helper-native \
+		"
+
diff --git a/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-xilinx-multiarch-helper-native_1.0.bb b/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-xilinx-multiarch-helper-native_1.0.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a9b11c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-xilinx-multiarch-helper-native_1.0.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+SUMMARY = "Helper scripts for executing a multi-arch instance of Xilinx QEMU"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/MIT;md5=0835ade698e0bcf8506ecda2f7b4f302"
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "qemu-xilinx-native"
+
+inherit native
+
+FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
+
+SRC_URI = "file://qemu-system-aarch64-multiarch"
+
+do_configure[noexec] = "1"
+do_compile[noexec] = "1"
+
+SYSROOT_DIRS += "${bindir}/qemu-xilinx"
+
+do_install() {
+	install -Dm 0755 ${WORKDIR}/qemu-system-aarch64-multiarch ${D}${bindir}/qemu-xilinx/qemu-system-aarch64-multiarch
+}
+
diff --git a/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-xilinx.inc b/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-xilinx.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b6c5dee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-xilinx.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+QEMU_TARGETS = "aarch64 arm microblaze microblazeel"
+
+require recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
+
+SUMMARY = "Xilinx's fork of a fast open source processor emulator"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/xilinx/qemu/"
+
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
+		file://COPYING;md5=441c28d2cf86e15a37fa47e15a72fbac \
+		file://COPYING.LIB;endline=24;md5=c04def7ae38850e7d3ef548588159913 \
+		"
+
+FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
+
+PV = "${XILINX_QEMU_VERSION}-xilinx-${XILINX_RELEASE_VERSION}+git${SRCPV}"
+BRANCH ?= ""
+REPO ?= "git://github.com/Xilinx/qemu.git;protocol=https"
+
+BRANCHARG = "${@['nobranch=1', 'branch=${BRANCH}'][d.getVar('BRANCH', True) != '']}"
+SRC_URI = "${REPO};${BRANCHARG} \
+	file://memfd.patch \
+	"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+# Disable KVM completely
+PACKAGECONFIG_remove = "kvm"
+
+# Enable libgcrypt
+PACKAGECONFIG_append = " gcrypt"
+
+DISABLE_STATIC_pn-${PN} = ""
+
+PTEST_ENABLED = ""
+
+# append a suffix dir, to allow multiple versions of QEMU to be installed
+EXTRA_OECONF_append = " \
+		--bindir=${bindir}/qemu-xilinx \
+		--libexecdir=${libexecdir}/qemu-xilinx \
+		"
+
+do_configure_prepend() {
+	# rewrite usage of 'libgcrypt-config' with 'pkg-config libgcrypt'
+	sed -r -i 's/libgcrypt-config(\s*--)/pkg-config libgcrypt\1/g' ${S}/configure
+}
+
+do_install_append() {
+	# Prevent QA warnings about installed ${localstatedir}/run
+	if [ -d ${D}${localstatedir}/run ]; then rmdir ${D}${localstatedir}/run; fi
+}
+
diff --git a/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-xilinx_2018.1.bb b/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-xilinx_2018.1.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1d6697c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu-xilinx_2018.1.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+require qemu-xilinx.inc
+
+XILINX_RELEASE_VERSION = "v2018.1"
+XILINX_QEMU_VERSION ?= "v2.11.0"
+BRANCH ?= "master"
+SRCREV ?= "1d5516986ea296d91a599ac23252e302a4003914"