diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
index f3342eaf28..e6dbc6d05a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ do_install_ptest() {
 	# Don't check the file genreated by configure
 	sed -i -e '/wildcard config-host.mak/d' \
 	       -e '$ {/endif/d}' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/Makefile.include
+        sed -i -e 's,${HOSTTOOLS_DIR}/python3,${bindir}/python3,' \
+            ${D}/${PTEST_PATH}/tests/qemu-iotests/common.env 
 }
 
 # QEMU_TARGETS is overridable variable