diff --git a/src/cosalib/qemuvariants.py b/src/cosalib/qemuvariants.py
index 8d57803b12..b546c8bdd5 100644
--- a/src/cosalib/qemuvariants.py
+++ b/src/cosalib/qemuvariants.py
@@ -183,6 +183,9 @@ def __init__(self, **kwargs):
 
         _Build.__init__(self, **kwargs)
 
+        repo = os.path.join(self._workdir, 'tmp/repo')
+        import_ostree_commit(repo, self._tmpdir, self.meta)
+
     @property
     def image_qemu(self):
         """