diff --git a/qemu/patches/virtiofsd/0001-add-time-to-seccomp.patch b/qemu/patches/virtiofsd/0001-add-time-to-seccomp.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..deadcb5b09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qemu/patches/virtiofsd/0001-add-time-to-seccomp.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From 2317a63d2acab16be4655ec87542a2bf3d75551b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
+Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 18:41:34 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] virtiofsd: Add time to seccomp
+
+Needed by static builds
+
+Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
+---
+ contrib/virtiofsd/seccomp.c | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/contrib/virtiofsd/seccomp.c b/contrib/virtiofsd/seccomp.c
+index 3b92c6ee13..374bab2bef 100644
+--- a/contrib/virtiofsd/seccomp.c
++++ b/contrib/virtiofsd/seccomp.c
+@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ static const int syscall_whitelist[] = {
+ 	SCMP_SYS(setresuid),
+ 	SCMP_SYS(set_robust_list),
+ 	SCMP_SYS(symlinkat),
++	SCMP_SYS(time), /* Rarely needed, except on static builds */
+ 	SCMP_SYS(tgkill),
+ 	SCMP_SYS(unlinkat),
+ 	SCMP_SYS(utimensat),
+-- 
+2.21.0
diff --git a/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/Dockerfile b/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/Dockerfile
index 7fb74df7e1..f3b9aee3ef 100644
--- a/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/Dockerfile
+++ b/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/Dockerfile
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ RUN apt-get install -y \
 	    libpixman-1-dev \
 	    libseccomp-dev \
 	    libtool \
+	    patch \
 	    pkg-config \
 	    pkg-config \
 	    python \
@@ -38,6 +39,8 @@ RUN apt-get install -y \
 
 RUN cd  .. && git clone "${QEMU_VIRTIOFS_REPO}" qemu-virtiofs
 RUN git checkout "${QEMU_VIRTIOFS_TAG}"
+ADD qemu/patches/virtiofsd/0001-add-time-to-seccomp.patch /root/0001-add-time-to-seccomp.patch
+RUN patch -p1 < /root/0001-add-time-to-seccomp.patch
 ADD scripts/configure-hypervisor.sh /root/configure-hypervisor.sh
 RUN PREFIX="${PREFIX}" /root/configure-hypervisor.sh -s kata-qemu | sed -e 's|--enable-rbd||g' -e 's|--disable-seccomp||g' | xargs ./configure \
 	--with-pkgversion=kata-static