diff --git a/release/kata-deploy-binaries.sh b/release/kata-deploy-binaries.sh
index e08ab26dc3..7d994f8280 100755
--- a/release/kata-deploy-binaries.sh
+++ b/release/kata-deploy-binaries.sh
@@ -120,6 +120,14 @@ install_qemu() {
 	tar xf kata-qemu-static.tar.gz -C "${destdir}"
 }
 
+# Install static qemu-virtiofsd asset
+install_qemu_virtiofsd() {
+	info "build static qemu-virtiofs"
+	"${script_dir}/../static-build/qemu-virtiofsd/build-static-qemu.sh"
+	info "Install static qemu-virtiofsd"
+	tar xf kata-qemu-static.tar.gz -C "${destdir}"
+}
+
 # Install static firecracker asset
 install_firecracker() {
 	info "build static firecracker"
@@ -210,6 +218,7 @@ main() {
 	install_kata_components
 	install_kernel
 	install_qemu
+	install_qemu_virtiofsd
 	install_nemu
 	install_firecracker
 	install_docker_config_script
diff --git a/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/Dockerfile b/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e0a1f8c9c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+from ubuntu:18.04
+
+ARG QEMU_VIRTIOFS_REPO
+# commit/tag/branch
+ARG QEMU_VIRTIOFS_TAG
+ARG PREFIX
+
+WORKDIR /root/qemu-virtiofs
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y
+RUN apt-get install -y \
+	    autoconf \
+	    automake \
+	    bc \
+	    bison \
+	    cpio \
+	    flex \
+	    gawk \
+	    libaudit-dev \
+	    libcap-dev \
+	    libcap-ng-dev \
+	    libdw-dev \
+	    libelf-dev \
+	    libglib2.0-0 \
+	    libglib2.0-dev \
+	    libglib2.0-dev git \
+	    libltdl-dev \
+	    libpixman-1-dev \
+	    libseccomp-dev \
+	    libtool \
+	    pkg-config \
+	    pkg-config \
+	    python \
+	    python-dev \
+	    rsync \
+	    seccomp \
+	    libseccomp2 \
+	    zlib1g-dev
+
+RUN cd  .. && git clone "${QEMU_VIRTIOFS_REPO}" qemu-virtiofs
+RUN git checkout "${QEMU_VIRTIOFS_TAG}"
+ADD scripts/configure-hypervisor.sh /root/configure-hypervisor.sh
+RUN PREFIX="${PREFIX}" /root/configure-hypervisor.sh -s kata-qemu | sed -e 's|--enable-rbd||g' -e 's|--disable-seccomp||g' | xargs ./configure \
+	--with-pkgversion=kata-static
+RUN make -j$(nproc)
+RUN make -j$(nproc) virtiofsd
+RUN make install DESTDIR=/tmp/qemu-virtiofs-static
+RUN chmod +x virtiofsd && mv virtiofsd /tmp/qemu-virtiofs-static/opt/kata/bin/
+RUN cd /tmp/qemu-virtiofs-static && tar -czvf kata-qemu-static.tar.gz *
diff --git a/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/Makefile b/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ab25f369d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+MK_DIR :=$(shell dirname $(realpath $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))))
+CONFIG_DIR := $(MK_DIR)/../../scripts/
+
+build:
+	"$(MK_DIR)/build-static-qemu-virtiofs.sh"
+clean:
+	rm -f kata-qemu-static.tar.gz
diff --git a/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/build-static-qemu-virtiofs.sh b/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/build-static-qemu-virtiofs.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..416b24e131
--- /dev/null
+++ b/static-build/qemu-virtiofs/build-static-qemu-virtiofs.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Intel Corporation
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
+set -o pipefail
+
+script_dir="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+
+source "${script_dir}/../../scripts/lib.sh"
+
+packaging_dir="${script_dir}/../.."
+qemu_virtiofs_repo="https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/qemu.git"
+# This tag will be supported on the runtime versions.yaml
+qemu_virtiofs_tag="virtio-fs-v0.3"
+qemu_tar="kata-qemu-static.tar.gz"
+qemu_tmp_tar="kata-qemu-static-tmp.tar.gz"
+
+info "Build ${qemu_virtiofs_repo} tag: ${qemu_virtiofs_tag}"
+
+http_proxy="${http_proxy:-}"
+https_proxy="${https_proxy:-}"
+prefix="${prefix:-"/opt/kata"}"
+
+sudo docker build \
+	--no-cache \
+	--build-arg http_proxy="${http_proxy}" \
+	--build-arg https_proxy="${https_proxy}" \
+	--build-arg QEMU_VIRTIOFS_REPO="${qemu_virtiofs_repo}" \
+	--build-arg QEMU_VIRTIOFS_TAG="${qemu_virtiofs_tag}" \
+	--build-arg PREFIX="${prefix}" \
+	"${packaging_dir}" \
+	-f "${script_dir}/Dockerfile" \
+	-t qemu-virtiofs-static
+
+sudo docker run \
+	-i \
+	-v "${PWD}":/share qemu-virtiofs-static \
+	mv "/tmp/qemu-virtiofs-static/${qemu_tar}" /share/
+
+sudo chown ${USER}:${USER} "${PWD}/${qemu_tar}"
+
+# Remove blacklisted binaries
+gzip -d < "${qemu_tar}" | tar --delete --wildcards -f - ${qemu_black_list[*]} | gzip > "${qemu_tmp_tar}"
+mv -f "${qemu_tmp_tar}" "${qemu_tar}"