diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/efibootpartition.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/efibootpartition.py
index fa74103dec..671bb68f2c 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/efibootpartition.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/efibootpartition.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #
 
 from oeqa.selftest.case import OESelftestTestCase
-from oeqa.utils.commands import bitbake, runqemu
+from oeqa.utils.commands import bitbake, runqemu, get_bb_var
 from oeqa.core.decorator.data import skipIfNotMachine
 import oe.types
 
@@ -14,10 +14,11 @@ class GenericEFITest(OESelftestTestCase):
     """EFI booting test class"""
     @skipIfNotMachine("qemux86-64", "test is qemux86-64 specific currently")
     def test_boot_efi(self):
-        cmd = "runqemu nographic serial wic ovmf"
+        image = "core-image-minimal"
+        runqemu_params = get_bb_var('TEST_RUNQEMUPARAMS', image)
+        cmd = "runqemu %s nographic serial wic ovmf" % (runqemu_params)
         if oe.types.qemu_use_kvm(self.td.get('QEMU_USE_KVM', 0), self.td["TARGET_ARCH"]):
             cmd += " kvm"
-        image = "core-image-minimal"
 
         self.write_config("""
 EFI_PROVIDER = "systemd-boot"