diff --git a/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/Dockerfile b/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/Dockerfile
index ad70070f25..58cbd09cd8 100644
--- a/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/Dockerfile
+++ b/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/Dockerfile
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 from ubuntu:20.04
 
+ARG QEMU_DESTDIR
 ARG QEMU_VIRTIOFS_REPO
 # commit/tag/branch
 ARG QEMU_VIRTIOFS_TAG
@@ -69,7 +70,8 @@ RUN PREFIX="${PREFIX}" /root/configure-hypervisor.sh -s kata-qemu | sed -e 's|--
 
 RUN make -j$(nproc)
 RUN make -j$(nproc) virtiofsd
-RUN make install DESTDIR=/tmp/qemu-virtiofs-static
-RUN mv /tmp/qemu-virtiofs-static/"${PREFIX}"/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 /tmp/qemu-virtiofs-static/"${PREFIX}"/bin/qemu-virtiofs-system-x86_64
-RUN mv /tmp/qemu-virtiofs-static/"${PREFIX}"/libexec/kata-qemu/virtiofsd /tmp/qemu-virtiofs-static/opt/kata/bin/virtiofsd-dax
-RUN cd /tmp/qemu-virtiofs-static && tar -czvf "${QEMU_TARBALL}"  *
+RUN make install DESTDIR="${QEMU_DESTDIR}"
+RUN cd "${QEMU_DESTDIR}/${PREFIX}" && \
+	mv bin/qemu-system-x86_64 bin/qemu-virtiofs-system-x86_64 && \
+	mv libexec/kata-qemu/virtiofsd bin/virtiofsd-dax
+RUN cd "${QEMU_DESTDIR}" && tar -czvf "${QEMU_TARBALL}"  *
diff --git a/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/build-static-qemu-virtiofs.sh b/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/build-static-qemu-virtiofs.sh
index 4823393175..9e5b808610 100755
--- a/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/build-static-qemu-virtiofs.sh
+++ b/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/build-static-qemu-virtiofs.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ qemu_virtiofs_repo=$(get_from_kata_deps "assets.hypervisor.qemu-experimental.url
 qemu_virtiofs_tag=$(get_from_kata_deps "assets.hypervisor.qemu-experimental.tag" "${kata_version}")
 qemu_virtiofs_tar="kata-static-qemu-virtiofsd.tar.gz"
 qemu_tmp_tar="kata-static-qemu-virtiofsd-tmp.tar.gz"
+qemu_destdir="/tmp/qemu-virtiofs-static"
 
 info "Build ${qemu_virtiofs_repo} tag: ${qemu_virtiofs_tag}"
 
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ sudo "${DOCKER_CLI}" build \
 	--no-cache \
 	--build-arg http_proxy="${http_proxy}" \
 	--build-arg https_proxy="${https_proxy}" \
+	--build-arg QEMU_DESTDIR="${qemu_destdir}" \
 	--build-arg QEMU_VIRTIOFS_REPO="${qemu_virtiofs_repo}" \
 	--build-arg QEMU_VIRTIOFS_TAG="${qemu_virtiofs_tag}" \
 	--build-arg QEMU_TARBALL="${qemu_virtiofs_tar}" \
@@ -48,7 +50,7 @@ sudo "${DOCKER_CLI}" build \
 sudo "${DOCKER_CLI}" run \
 	-i \
 	-v "${PWD}":/share qemu-virtiofs-static \
-	mv "/tmp/qemu-virtiofs-static/${qemu_virtiofs_tar}" /share/
+	mv "${qemu_destdir}/${qemu_virtiofs_tar}" /share/
 
 sudo chown ${USER}:${USER} "${PWD}/${qemu_virtiofs_tar}"
 
diff --git a/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/Dockerfile b/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/Dockerfile
index 8e434a7be4..f029bb4e80 100644
--- a/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/Dockerfile
+++ b/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/Dockerfile
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 from ubuntu:20.04
 
+ARG QEMU_DESTDIR
 ARG QEMU_REPO
 # commit/tag/branch
 ARG QEMU_VERSION
@@ -64,5 +65,5 @@ RUN PREFIX="${PREFIX}" /root/configure-hypervisor.sh -s kata-qemu | xargs ./conf
 
 RUN make -j$(nproc)
 RUN make -j$(nproc) virtiofsd
-RUN make install DESTDIR=/tmp/qemu-static
-RUN cd /tmp/qemu-static && tar -czvf "${QEMU_TARBALL}" *
+RUN make install DESTDIR="${QEMU_DESTDIR}"
+RUN cd "${QEMU_DESTDIR}" && tar -czvf "${QEMU_TARBALL}" *
diff --git a/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/build-static-qemu.sh b/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/build-static-qemu.sh
index fd6f52439f..4872f33a33 100755
--- a/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/build-static-qemu.sh
+++ b/tools/packaging/static-build/qemu/build-static-qemu.sh
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ source "${script_dir}/../qemu.blacklist"
 packaging_dir="${script_dir}/../.."
 qemu_tar="kata-static-qemu.tar.gz"
 qemu_tmp_tar="kata-static-qemu-tmp.tar.gz"
+qemu_destdir="/tmp/qemu-static/"
 
 qemu_repo="${qemu_repo:-}"
 qemu_version="${qemu_version:-}"
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ sudo docker build \
 	--no-cache \
 	--build-arg http_proxy="${http_proxy}" \
 	--build-arg https_proxy="${https_proxy}" \
+	--build-arg QEMU_DESTDIR="${qemu_destdir}" \
 	--build-arg QEMU_REPO="${qemu_repo}" \
 	--build-arg QEMU_VERSION="${qemu_version}" \
 	--build-arg QEMU_TARBALL="${qemu_tar}" \
@@ -56,7 +58,7 @@ sudo docker build \
 sudo docker run \
 	-i \
 	-v "${PWD}":/share qemu-static \
-	mv "/tmp/qemu-static/${qemu_tar}" /share/
+	mv "${qemu_destdir}/${qemu_tar}" /share/
 
 sudo chown ${USER}:${USER} "${PWD}/${qemu_tar}"