diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/wic.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/wic.py
index d98af8713a19..267c7105c5ec 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/wic.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/wic.py
@@ -564,8 +564,9 @@ part /mnt --source rootfs --ondisk mmcblk0 --fstype=ext4 --exclude-path bin/whoa
         bb_vars = get_bb_vars(['DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE', 'MACHINE'], 'core-image-minimal')
         deploy_dir = bb_vars['DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE']
         machine = bb_vars['MACHINE']
+        nativesysroot = get_bb_var('RECIPE_SYSROOT_NATIVE', 'wic-tools')
         wicout = glob(os.path.join(deploy_dir, "core-image-minimal-%s.rootfs-*.wic" % machine))[0]
-        size_of_root_partition = int(runCmd("wic ls %s" % wicout).output.split('\n')[2].split()[3])
+        size_of_root_partition = int(runCmd("wic ls %s --native-sysroot %s" % (wicout, nativesysroot)).output.split('\n')[2].split()[3])
         self.assertGreater(size_of_root_partition, 500000000)
 
     def test_include_path(self):