diff --git a/alpine/base/mkimage-gce/syslinux.cfg b/alpine/base/mkimage-gce/syslinux.cfg
index e2a5892c2..5c9afd6fd 100644
--- a/alpine/base/mkimage-gce/syslinux.cfg
+++ b/alpine/base/mkimage-gce/syslinux.cfg
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ DEFAULT linux
 LABEL linux
     KERNEL /vmlinuz64
     INITRD /initrd.img
-    APPEND earlyprintk=ttyS0,115200 console=ttyS0,115200 mobyplatform=gcp
+    APPEND earlyprintk=ttyS0,115200 console=ttyS0,115200 mobyplatform=gcp vsyscall=emulate