diff --git a/Gopkg.lock b/Gopkg.lock
index 57b06eced..fad325a75 100644
--- a/Gopkg.lock
+++ b/Gopkg.lock
@@ -115,11 +115,11 @@
   revision = "3520598351bb3500a49ae9563f5539666ae0a27c"
 
 [[projects]]
-  digest = "1:a801632523299b53fbd954449f36020cf751e4bd6fe2d923e3416e8f0603b4af"
+  digest = "1:e35245b8aac4b53c6dd7b161c8c19f038e2ad29a54a03d276a88f3fc2a656c29"
   name = "github.com/intel/govmm"
   packages = ["qemu"]
   pruneopts = "NUT"
-  revision = "eda239928bfa12b214e9c93192d548cccf4e7f1e"
+  revision = "d8f80cafe3ee3bba440a9ff8d234817b64a30b07"
 
 [[projects]]
   digest = "1:55460fbdfca464360cec902b0805126451908aa1a058fe4072b01650ebe768b3"
diff --git a/Gopkg.toml b/Gopkg.toml
index 36d68e26f..a3914ffd3 100644
--- a/Gopkg.toml
+++ b/Gopkg.toml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 
 [[constraint]]
   name = "github.com/intel/govmm"
-  revision = "eda239928bfa12b214e9c93192d548cccf4e7f1e"
+  revision = "d8f80cafe3ee3bba440a9ff8d234817b64a30b07"
 
 [[constraint]]
   name = "github.com/kata-containers/agent"
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/intel/govmm/qemu/qemu.go b/vendor/github.com/intel/govmm/qemu/qemu.go
index 31254231d..d2f27f51d 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/intel/govmm/qemu/qemu.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/intel/govmm/qemu/qemu.go
@@ -1064,16 +1064,12 @@ type RTC struct {
 
 // Valid returns true if the RTC structure is valid and complete.
 func (rtc RTC) Valid() bool {
-	if rtc.Clock != "" {
-		if rtc.Clock != Host && rtc.Clock != VM {
-			return false
-		}
+	if rtc.Clock != Host && rtc.Clock != VM {
+		return false
 	}
 
-	if rtc.DriftFix != "" {
-		if rtc.DriftFix != Slew && rtc.DriftFix != NoDriftFix {
-			return false
-		}
+	if rtc.DriftFix != Slew && rtc.DriftFix != NoDriftFix {
+		return false
 	}
 
 	return true
@@ -1239,7 +1235,7 @@ type Config struct {
 	// Path is the qemu binary path.
 	Path string
 
-	// Ctx is not used at the moment.
+	// Ctx is the context used when launching qemu.
 	Ctx context.Context
 
 	// Name is the qemu guest name
@@ -1636,7 +1632,12 @@ func LaunchQemu(config Config, logger QMPLog) (string, error) {
 		return "", err
 	}
 
-	return LaunchCustomQemu(config.Ctx, config.Path, config.qemuParams,
+	ctx := config.Ctx
+	if ctx == nil {
+		ctx = context.Background()
+	}
+
+	return LaunchCustomQemu(ctx, config.Path, config.qemuParams,
 		config.fds, nil, logger)
 }
 
@@ -1644,10 +1645,6 @@ func LaunchQemu(config Config, logger QMPLog) (string, error) {
 //
 // The path parameter is used to pass the qemu executable path.
 //
-// The ctx parameter is not currently used but has been added so that the
-// signature of this function will not need to change when launch cancellation
-// is implemented.
-//
 // params is a slice of options to pass to qemu-system-x86_64 and fds is a
 // list of open file descriptors that are to be passed to the spawned qemu
 // process.  The attrs parameter can be used to control aspects of the
@@ -1672,7 +1669,7 @@ func LaunchCustomQemu(ctx context.Context, path string, params []string, fds []*
 	}
 
 	/* #nosec */
-	cmd := exec.Command(path, params...)
+	cmd := exec.CommandContext(ctx, path, params...)
 	if len(fds) > 0 {
 		logger.Infof("Adding extra file %v", fds)
 		cmd.ExtraFiles = fds
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/intel/govmm/qemu/qmp.go b/vendor/github.com/intel/govmm/qemu/qmp.go
index ea6cb6454..92000fe03 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/intel/govmm/qemu/qmp.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/intel/govmm/qemu/qmp.go
@@ -671,7 +671,8 @@ func (q *QMP) ExecuteBlockdevAdd(ctx context.Context, device, blockdevID string)
 // to a previous call to ExecuteBlockdevAdd.  devID is the id of the device to
 // add.  Both strings must be valid QMP identifiers.  driver is the name of the
 // driver,e.g., virtio-blk-pci, and bus is the name of the bus.  bus is optional.
-func (q *QMP) ExecuteDeviceAdd(ctx context.Context, blockdevID, devID, driver, bus string) error {
+// shared denotes if the drive can be shared allowing it to be passed more than once.
+func (q *QMP) ExecuteDeviceAdd(ctx context.Context, blockdevID, devID, driver, bus string, shared bool) error {
 	args := map[string]interface{}{
 		"id":     devID,
 		"driver": driver,
@@ -680,6 +681,9 @@ func (q *QMP) ExecuteDeviceAdd(ctx context.Context, blockdevID, devID, driver, b
 	if bus != "" {
 		args["bus"] = bus
 	}
+	if shared && (q.version.Major > 2 || (q.version.Major == 2 && q.version.Minor >= 10)) {
+		args["share-rw"] = "on"
+	}
 	return q.executeCommand(ctx, "device_add", args, nil)
 }
 
@@ -689,8 +693,9 @@ func (q *QMP) ExecuteDeviceAdd(ctx context.Context, blockdevID, devID, driver, b
 // the device to add.  Both strings must be valid QMP identifiers.  driver is the name of the
 // scsi driver,e.g., scsi-hd, and bus is the name of a SCSI controller bus.
 // scsiID is the SCSI id, lun is logical unit number. scsiID and lun are optional, a negative value
-// for scsiID and lun is ignored.
-func (q *QMP) ExecuteSCSIDeviceAdd(ctx context.Context, blockdevID, devID, driver, bus string, scsiID, lun int) error {
+// for scsiID and lun is ignored. shared denotes if the drive can be shared allowing it
+// to be passed more than once.
+func (q *QMP) ExecuteSCSIDeviceAdd(ctx context.Context, blockdevID, devID, driver, bus string, scsiID, lun int, shared bool) error {
 	// TBD: Add drivers for scsi passthrough like scsi-generic and scsi-block
 	drivers := []string{"scsi-hd", "scsi-cd", "scsi-disk"}
 
@@ -718,6 +723,9 @@ func (q *QMP) ExecuteSCSIDeviceAdd(ctx context.Context, blockdevID, devID, drive
 	if lun >= 0 {
 		args["lun"] = lun
 	}
+	if shared && (q.version.Major > 2 || (q.version.Major == 2 && q.version.Minor >= 10)) {
+		args["share-rw"] = "on"
+	}
 
 	return q.executeCommand(ctx, "device_add", args, nil)
 }
@@ -820,8 +828,9 @@ func (q *QMP) ExecuteDeviceDel(ctx context.Context, devID string) error {
 
 // ExecutePCIDeviceAdd is the PCI version of ExecuteDeviceAdd. This function can be used
 // to hot plug PCI devices on PCI(E) bridges, unlike ExecuteDeviceAdd this function receive the
-// device address on its parent bus. bus is optional.
-func (q *QMP) ExecutePCIDeviceAdd(ctx context.Context, blockdevID, devID, driver, addr, bus string) error {
+// device address on its parent bus. bus is optional. shared denotes if the drive can be shared
+// allowing it to be passed more than once.
+func (q *QMP) ExecutePCIDeviceAdd(ctx context.Context, blockdevID, devID, driver, addr, bus string, shared bool) error {
 	args := map[string]interface{}{
 		"id":     devID,
 		"driver": driver,
@@ -831,6 +840,10 @@ func (q *QMP) ExecutePCIDeviceAdd(ctx context.Context, blockdevID, devID, driver
 	if bus != "" {
 		args["bus"] = bus
 	}
+	if shared && (q.version.Major > 2 || (q.version.Major == 2 && q.version.Minor >= 10)) {
+		args["share-rw"] = "on"
+	}
+
 	return q.executeCommand(ctx, "device_add", args, nil)
 }
 
@@ -865,6 +878,24 @@ func (q *QMP) ExecutePCIVFIODeviceAdd(ctx context.Context, devID, bdf, addr, bus
 	return q.executeCommand(ctx, "device_add", args, nil)
 }
 
+// ExecutePCIVFIOMediatedDeviceAdd adds a VFIO mediated device to a QEMU instance using the device_add command.
+// This function can be used to hot plug VFIO mediated devices on PCI(E) bridges, unlike
+// ExecuteVFIODeviceAdd this function receives the bus and the device address on its parent bus.
+// bus is optional. devID is the id of the device to add. Must be valid QMP identifier. sysfsdev is the VFIO
+// mediated device.
+func (q *QMP) ExecutePCIVFIOMediatedDeviceAdd(ctx context.Context, devID, sysfsdev, addr, bus string) error {
+	args := map[string]interface{}{
+		"id":       devID,
+		"driver":   "vfio-pci",
+		"sysfsdev": sysfsdev,
+		"addr":     addr,
+	}
+	if bus != "" {
+		args["bus"] = bus
+	}
+	return q.executeCommand(ctx, "device_add", args, nil)
+}
+
 // ExecuteCPUDeviceAdd adds a CPU to a QEMU instance using the device_add command.
 // driver is the CPU model, cpuID must be a unique ID to identify the CPU, socketID is the socket number within
 // node/board the CPU belongs to, coreID is the core number within socket the CPU belongs to, threadID is the
@@ -956,12 +987,17 @@ func (q *QMP) ExecHotplugMemory(ctx context.Context, qomtype, id, mempath string
 }
 
 // ExecutePCIVSockAdd adds a vhost-vsock-pci bus
-func (q *QMP) ExecutePCIVSockAdd(ctx context.Context, id, guestCID, vhostfd string, disableModern bool) error {
+func (q *QMP) ExecutePCIVSockAdd(ctx context.Context, id, guestCID, vhostfd, addr, bus string, disableModern bool) error {
 	args := map[string]interface{}{
 		"driver":    VHostVSockPCI,
 		"id":        id,
 		"guest-cid": guestCID,
 		"vhostfd":   vhostfd,
+		"addr":      addr,
+	}
+
+	if bus != "" {
+		args["bus"] = bus
 	}
 
 	if disableModern {
diff --git a/virtcontainers/qemu.go b/virtcontainers/qemu.go
index 151222de5..750785b71 100644
--- a/virtcontainers/qemu.go
+++ b/virtcontainers/qemu.go
@@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ func (q *qemu) hotplugBlockDevice(drive *config.BlockDrive, op operation) error
 			// PCI address is in the format bridge-addr/device-addr eg. "03/02"
 			drive.PCIAddr = fmt.Sprintf("%02x", bridge.Addr) + "/" + addr
 
-			if err = q.qmpMonitorCh.qmp.ExecutePCIDeviceAdd(q.qmpMonitorCh.ctx, drive.ID, devID, driver, addr, bridge.ID); err != nil {
+			if err = q.qmpMonitorCh.qmp.ExecutePCIDeviceAdd(q.qmpMonitorCh.ctx, drive.ID, devID, driver, addr, bridge.ID, true); err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
 		} else {
@@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ func (q *qemu) hotplugBlockDevice(drive *config.BlockDrive, op operation) error
 				return err
 			}
 
-			if err = q.qmpMonitorCh.qmp.ExecuteSCSIDeviceAdd(q.qmpMonitorCh.ctx, drive.ID, devID, driver, bus, scsiID, lun); err != nil {
+			if err = q.qmpMonitorCh.qmp.ExecuteSCSIDeviceAdd(q.qmpMonitorCh.ctx, drive.ID, devID, driver, bus, scsiID, lun, true); err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
 		}