diff --git a/repos/base-hw/recipes/src/base-hw-zynq_qemu/content.mk b/repos/base-hw/recipes/src/base-hw-zynq_qemu/content.mk
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f55a4846d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/base-hw/recipes/src/base-hw-zynq_qemu/content.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+include $(GENODE_DIR)/repos/base-hw/recipes/src/base-hw_content.inc
+
+content: enable_board_spec
+enable_board_spec: etc/specs.conf
+	echo "SPECS += zynq_qemu" >> etc/specs.conf
diff --git a/repos/base-hw/recipes/src/base-hw-zynq_qemu/hash b/repos/base-hw/recipes/src/base-hw-zynq_qemu/hash
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b184fa69d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/base-hw/recipes/src/base-hw-zynq_qemu/hash
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+2018-11-30 d3c101aa2f57329afb86cc672cffda195be71050
diff --git a/repos/base-hw/recipes/src/base-hw-zynq_qemu/used_apis b/repos/base-hw/recipes/src/base-hw-zynq_qemu/used_apis
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ed9b77256
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/base-hw/recipes/src/base-hw-zynq_qemu/used_apis
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+base-hw
+base
diff --git a/tool/run/boot_dir/hw b/tool/run/boot_dir/hw
index 25b8d02fb..ece95e8eb 100644
--- a/tool/run/boot_dir/hw
+++ b/tool/run/boot_dir/hw
@@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ proc base_src { } {
 	if {[have_spec imx53_qsb] &&  [have_spec trustzone]} { return base-hw-imx53_qsb_tz }
 	if {[have_spec arndale]}                             { return base-hw-arndale }
 	if {[have_spec panda]}                               { return base-hw-panda }
+	if {[have_spec zynq_qemu]}                           { return base-hw-zynq_qemu }
 
 	global specs