diff --git a/meta/classes/qemuboot.bbclass b/meta/classes/qemuboot.bbclass
index cc1cbce69d..229bd88527 100644
--- a/meta/classes/qemuboot.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/qemuboot.bbclass
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ def qemuboot_vars(d):
     build_vars = ['MACHINE', 'TUNE_ARCH', 'DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE',
                 'KERNEL_IMAGETYPE', 'IMAGE_NAME', 'IMAGE_LINK_NAME',
                 'STAGING_DIR_NATIVE', 'STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE',
-                'STAGING_DIR_HOST', 'SERIAL_CONSOLES']
+                'STAGING_DIR_HOST', 'SERIAL_CONSOLES', 'UNINATIVE_LOADER']
     return build_vars + [k for k in d.keys() if k.startswith('QB_')]
 
 do_write_qemuboot_conf[vardeps] += "${@' '.join(qemuboot_vars(d))}"
diff --git a/scripts/runqemu b/scripts/runqemu
index 4e05c1bb15..d60cb2e152 100755
--- a/scripts/runqemu
+++ b/scripts/runqemu
@@ -461,6 +461,14 @@ class BaseConfig(object):
             raise RunQemuError("Could not determine the path to dri drivers on the host via pkg-config.\nPlease install Mesa development files (particularly, dri.pc) on the host machine.")
         os.environ['LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH'] = dripath.decode('utf-8').strip()
 
+        # This preloads uninative libc pieces and therefore ensures that RPATH/RUNPATH
+        # in host mesa drivers doesn't trick uninative into loading host libc.
+        preload_items = ['libdl.so.2', 'librt.so.1', 'libpthread.so.0']
+        uninative_path = os.path.dirname(self.get("UNINATIVE_LOADER"))
+        if os.path.exists(uninative_path):
+            preload_paths = [os.path.join(uninative_path, i) for i in preload_items]
+            os.environ['LD_PRELOAD'] = " ".join(preload_paths)
+
     def check_args(self):
         for debug in ("-d", "--debug"):
             if debug in sys.argv: