diff --git a/tools/packaging/kata-deploy/scripts/kata-deploy.sh b/tools/packaging/kata-deploy/scripts/kata-deploy.sh
index 8a3e5e3dc2..779545eb8b 100755
--- a/tools/packaging/kata-deploy/scripts/kata-deploy.sh
+++ b/tools/packaging/kata-deploy/scripts/kata-deploy.sh
@@ -291,6 +291,10 @@ function adjust_qemu_cmdline() {
 	# ${dest_dir}/opt/kata/share/kata-qemu/qemu
 	# ${dest_dir}/opt/kata/share/kata-qemu-snp-experimnental/qemu
 	[[ "${shim}" =~ ^(qemu-snp|qemu-nvidia-snp)$ ]] && qemu_share=${shim}-experimental
+
+	# Both qemu and qemu-coco-dev use exactly the same QEMU, so we can adjust
+	# the shim on the qemu-coco-dev case to qemu
+	[[ "${shim}" =~ ^(qemu|qemu-coco-dev)$ ]] && qemu_share="qemu"
 		
 	qemu_binary=$(tomlq '.hypervisor.qemu.path' ${config_path} | tr -d \")
 	qemu_binary_script="${qemu_binary}-installation-prefix"
@@ -391,7 +395,7 @@ function install_artifacts() {
 			sed -i -e "s|${default_dest_dir}|${dest_dir}|g" "${kata_config_file}"
 
 			# Let's only adjust qemu_cmdline for the QEMUs that we build and ship ourselves
-			[[ "${shim}" =~ ^(qemu|qemu-snp|qemu-nvidia-gpu|qemu-nvidia-gpu-snp|qemu-sev|qemu-se)$ ]] && \
+			[[ "${shim}" =~ ^(qemu|qemu-snp|qemu-nvidia-gpu|qemu-nvidia-gpu-snp|qemu-sev|qemu-se|qemu-coco-dev)$ ]] && \
 				adjust_qemu_cmdline "${shim}" "${kata_config_file}"
 		fi
 	done