diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
index 5979b52650..1a83c01ea8 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
@@ -166,6 +166,10 @@ class QemuRunner:
         if self.tmpfsdir:
             env["RUNQEMU_TMPFS_DIR"] = self.tmpfsdir
 
+        if self.native_sysroot:
+            # Needed by runqemu-export-rootfs (avoid a second tinfoil connection)
+            env["OECORE_NATIVE_SYSROOT"] = self.native_sysroot
+
         if not launch_cmd:
             launch_cmd = 'runqemu %s' % ('snapshot' if discard_writes else '')
             if self.use_kvm:
diff --git a/scripts/lib/pseudo_rootfs_utils.py b/scripts/lib/pseudo_rootfs_utils.py
index 12431e2080..e539a69f82 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/pseudo_rootfs_utils.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/pseudo_rootfs_utils.py
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ def extract_sdk_rootfs(rootfs_tarball, rootfs_dir, pseudo_cmd, environment):
     environment = dict(environment)
     environment['PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR'] = state_dir
     environment['PSEUDO_INCLUDE_PATHS'] = rootfs_dir
+    environment['PSEUDO_DISABLED'] = '0'
 
     command = list(pseudo_cmd) + ['tar', '-C', rootfs_dir] + tar_options + [rootfs_tarball]
     print('Extracting rootfs tarball using pseudo...')
diff --git a/scripts/runqemu b/scripts/runqemu
index 2c126e7f54..74a00e5481 100755
--- a/scripts/runqemu
+++ b/scripts/runqemu
@@ -1289,7 +1289,7 @@ to your build configuration.
         rootfs_format = self.fstype if self.fstype in ('vmdk', 'vhd', 'vhdx', 'qcow2', 'vdi') else 'raw'
 
         tmpfsdir = os.environ.get("RUNQEMU_TMPFS_DIR", None)
-        if self.snapshot and tmpfsdir:
+        if self.snapshot and tmpfsdir and self.fstype != 'nfs':
             newrootfs = os.path.join(tmpfsdir, os.path.basename(self.rootfs)) + "." + str(os.getpid())
             logger.info("Copying rootfs to %s" % newrootfs)
             copy_start = time.time()
diff --git a/scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs b/scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs
index 150513bc50..ff19a0ccc9 100755
--- a/scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs
+++ b/scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$NFS_EXPORT_DIR/../$(basename $NFS_EXPORT_DIR).pseudo_stat
 export PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR
 PSEUDO_INCLUDE_PATHS="$NFS_EXPORT_DIR"
 export PSEUDO_INCLUDE_PATHS
+# Enable pseudo
+export PSEUDO_DISABLED=0
 
 if [ ! -d "$PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR" ]; then
 	echo "Error: $PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR does not exist."