diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/rust.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/rust.py
index 819ff6af9e..01a98339a6 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/rust.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/rust.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ class RustSelfTestSystemEmulated(OESelftestTestCase, OEPTestResultTestCase):
         bitbake("{} -c test_compile".format(recipe))
         builddir = get_bb_var("RUSTSRC", "rust")
         # build core-image-minimal with required packages
-        default_installed_packages = ["libgcc", "libstdc++", "libatomic", "libgomp"]
+        default_installed_packages = ["libgcc", "libstdc++", "libatomic", "libgomp", "libzstd"]
         features = []
         features.append('IMAGE_FEATURES += "ssh-server-dropbear"')
         features.append('CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "{0}"'.format(" ".join(default_installed_packages)))