diff --git a/meta/conf/machine/include/qemu.inc b/meta/conf/machine/include/qemu.inc
index 637f4efe51..7111926626 100644
--- a/meta/conf/machine/include/qemu.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/machine/include/qemu.inc
@@ -23,3 +23,6 @@ RDEPENDS_kernel-base = ""
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel ?= "linux-yocto"
 
 EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS += "qemu-native qemu-helper-native"
+
+# Provide the nfs server kernel module for all qemu images
+KERNEL_FEATURES_append = " features/nfsd/nfsd-enable.scc"