diff --git a/meta-arm-autonomy/README.md b/meta-arm-autonomy/README.md
index f8a14044..1f80a054 100644
--- a/meta-arm-autonomy/README.md
+++ b/meta-arm-autonomy/README.md
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ Distribution Features
 ---------------------
 This layer is adding the following Yocto DISTRO_FEATURES:
 
+* arm-autonomy-host: this feature activates functionalities required to build
+  an autonomy host system. It is doing the following:
+  - add 'xen' and 'ipv4' to DISTRO_FEATURES.
+  - add xen backend drivers to linux kernel configuration.
+
 Bitbake variables
 -----------------
 Some recipes and classes in this layer are introducing variables which can be
diff --git a/meta-arm-autonomy/classes/arm-autonomy-features.bbclass b/meta-arm-autonomy/classes/arm-autonomy-features.bbclass
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..38441e49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-arm-autonomy/classes/arm-autonomy-features.bbclass
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# Include arm-autonomy distro config files if the distro features are set
+
+require ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'arm-autonomy-host', '${ARM_AUTONOMY_DISTRO_CFGDIR}/arm-autonomy-host.inc', '', d)}
+
diff --git a/meta-arm-autonomy/conf/distro/include/arm-autonomy-host.inc b/meta-arm-autonomy/conf/distro/include/arm-autonomy-host.inc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..236fbe92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-arm-autonomy/conf/distro/include/arm-autonomy-host.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# This files is added when DISTRO_FEATURES contains arm-autonomy-host
+
+# We need to have xen and ipv4 activated
+DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " xen ipv4"
+
diff --git a/meta-arm-autonomy/conf/layer.conf b/meta-arm-autonomy/conf/layer.conf
index 2dc24a2c..19f24add 100644
--- a/meta-arm-autonomy/conf/layer.conf
+++ b/meta-arm-autonomy/conf/layer.conf
@@ -23,3 +23,9 @@ LAYERSERIES_COMPAT_meta-arm-autonomy = "zeus"
 # otherwise the user will see a warning on each build.
 SKIP_META_VIRT_SANITY_CHECK = "1"
 
+# Directory of our distro config files
+ARM_AUTONOMY_DISTRO_CFGDIR = "${LAYERDIR}/conf/distro/include/"
+
+# Add class to handle arm-autonomy distro extensions
+USER_CLASSES_append = " arm-autonomy-features"
+
diff --git a/meta-arm-autonomy/recipes-kernel/linux/arm-autonomy-kmeta/features/arm-autonomy/xen-host.cfg b/meta-arm-autonomy/recipes-kernel/linux/arm-autonomy-kmeta/features/arm-autonomy/xen-host.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2affab98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-arm-autonomy/recipes-kernel/linux/arm-autonomy-kmeta/features/arm-autonomy/xen-host.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y
+CONFIG_XEN=y
+
+CONFIG_BLOCK=y
+CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND=y
+
+CONFIG_SCSI=y
+CONFIG_TARGET_CORE=y
+CONFIG_XEN_SCSI_BACKEND=y
+
+CONFIG_NET=y
+CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND=y
+
+CONFIG_HVC_IRQ=y
+
+CONFIG_HVC_XEN=y
+
+CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y
+CONFIG_XEN_WDT=y
+
+CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON=y
+
+CONFIG_XEN_DEV_EVTCHN=y
+
+CONFIG_XENFS=y
+CONFIG_XEN_COMPAT_XENFS=y
+
+CONFIG_XEN_SYS_HYPERVISOR=y
+CONFIG_XEN_GNTDEV=y
+CONFIG_XEN_GRANT_DEV_ALLOC=y
+CONFIG_SWIOTLB_XEN=y
+
+CONFIG_XEN_EFI=y
+CONFIG_XEN_AUTO_XLATE=y
+
diff --git a/meta-arm-autonomy/recipes-kernel/linux/arm-autonomy-kmeta/features/arm-autonomy/xen-host.scc b/meta-arm-autonomy/recipes-kernel/linux/arm-autonomy-kmeta/features/arm-autonomy/xen-host.scc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6fdbabc4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-arm-autonomy/recipes-kernel/linux/arm-autonomy-kmeta/features/arm-autonomy/xen-host.scc
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+define KFEATURE_DESCRIPTION "Enable XEN Host Drivers on autonomy systems"
+
+kconf non-hardware xen-host.cfg
+
diff --git a/meta-arm-autonomy/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-%.bbappend b/meta-arm-autonomy/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-%.bbappend
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..add70425
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-arm-autonomy/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-%.bbappend
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Add arm-autonomy kernel support
+require linux-arm-autonomy.inc
+
diff --git a/meta-arm-autonomy/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-arm-autonomy.inc b/meta-arm-autonomy/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-arm-autonomy.inc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..03323872
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-arm-autonomy/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-arm-autonomy.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Add arm-autonomy specific features to the kernel
+
+FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}:"
+
+#
+# arm-autonomy kmeta
+#
+SRC_URI_append = " file://arm-autonomy-kmeta;type=kmeta;name=arm-autonomy-kmeta;destsuffix=arm-autonomy-kmeta"
+
+# Add xen host drivers to kernel if arm-autonomy-host is activated
+KERNEL_FEATURES += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', \
+        'arm-autonomy-host', 'features/arm-autonomy/xen-host.scc', '', d)}"
+