diff --git a/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/static.cfg b/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/static.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..72079a1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/static.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+CONFIG_STATIC=y
+CONFIG_INSTALL=y
+CONFIG_FEATURE_INSTALLER=y
+
diff --git a/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_%.bbappend b/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_%.bbappend
index 617caccb..3d39bba3 100644
--- a/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_%.bbappend
+++ b/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_%.bbappend
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
 require ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'virtualization', '${BPN}_virtualization.inc', '', d)}
+require ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'vmsep', '${BPN}_vmsep.inc', '', d)}
+
diff --git a/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_vmsep.inc b/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_vmsep.inc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b70a065c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_vmsep.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/busybox:"
+SRC_URI += " \
+            file://static.cfg \
+           "
+
+# we do this to get the target binary available to recipes that
+# depend on busybox
+SYSROOT_DIRS += "/bin"