diff --git a/static-build/nemu/Dockerfile b/static-build/nemu/Dockerfile
index 1691a2a753..f8c52f29e5 100644
--- a/static-build/nemu/Dockerfile
+++ b/static-build/nemu/Dockerfile
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ ARG NEMU_VERSION
 ARG NEMU_OVMF
 ARG VIRTIOFSD_RELEASE
 ARG VIRTIOFSD
+ARG PREFIX
 
 WORKDIR /root/nemu
 RUN apt-get update
@@ -40,20 +41,20 @@ RUN apt-get install -y \
 	    zlib1g-dev
 
 RUN cd  .. && git clone --depth=1 "${NEMU_REPO}" nemu
-RUN git checkout "${NEMU_VERSION}"
+RUN git fetch origin --tags && git checkout "${NEMU_VERSION}"
 RUN git clone https://github.com/qemu/capstone.git capstone
 RUN git clone https://github.com/qemu/keycodemapdb.git ui/keycodemapdb
 
 ADD configure-hypervisor.sh /root/configure-hypervisor.sh
 
-RUN PREFIX=/opt/kata /root/configure-hypervisor.sh -s kata-nemu | xargs ./configure \
+RUN PREFIX="${PREFIX}" /root/configure-hypervisor.sh -s kata-nemu | xargs ./configure \
        --with-pkgversion=kata-static
 
 RUN make -j$(nproc)
 RUN make install DESTDIR=/tmp/nemu-static
 
-RUN wget "${NEMU_OVMF}" && mv OVMF.fd /tmp/nemu-static/opt/kata/share/kata-nemu/
-RUN mv /tmp/nemu-static/opt/kata/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 /tmp/nemu-static/opt/kata/bin/nemu-system-x86_64
-RUN wget "${VIRTIOFSD_RELEASE}/${VIRTIOFSD}" && chmod +x ${VIRTIOFSD} && mv ${VIRTIOFSD} /tmp/nemu-static/opt/kata/bin/
+RUN wget "${NEMU_OVMF}" && mv OVMF.fd /tmp/nemu-static/"${PREFIX}"/share/kata-nemu/
+RUN mv /tmp/nemu-static/"${PREFIX}"/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 /tmp/nemu-static/"${PREFIX}"/bin/nemu-system-x86_64
+RUN wget "${VIRTIOFSD_RELEASE}/${VIRTIOFSD}" && chmod +x ${VIRTIOFSD} && mv ${VIRTIOFSD} /tmp/nemu-static/"${PREFIX}"/bin/
 
 RUN cd /tmp/nemu-static && tar -czvf kata-nemu-static.tar.gz *
diff --git a/static-build/nemu/build-static-nemu.sh b/static-build/nemu/build-static-nemu.sh
index c8c3049618..07c4b86c24 100755
--- a/static-build/nemu/build-static-nemu.sh
+++ b/static-build/nemu/build-static-nemu.sh
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ info "Build ${nemu_repo} version: ${nemu_version}"
 
 http_proxy="${http_proxy:-}"
 https_proxy="${https_proxy:-}"
+prefix="${prefix:-"/opt/kata"}"
 
 docker build \
 	--build-arg http_proxy="${http_proxy}" \
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ docker build \
 	--build-arg NEMU_OVMF="${nemu_ovmf_release}" \
 	--build-arg VIRTIOFSD_RELEASE="${nemu_virtiofsd_release}" \
 	--build-arg VIRTIOFSD="${nemu_virtiofsd_binary}" \
+	--build-arg PREFIX="${prefix}" \
 	"${config_dir}" \
 	-f "${script_dir}/Dockerfile" \
 	-t nemu-static