diff --git a/meta/classes/image.bbclass b/meta/classes/image.bbclass
index dd78acb..0d737c3 100644
--- a/meta/classes/image.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/image.bbclass
@@ -184,6 +184,9 @@ do_rootfs[lockfiles] += "${IMAGE_ROOTFS}.lock"
 do_rootfs[cleandirs] += "${S} ${WORKDIR}/intercept_scripts"
 do_build[nostamp] = "1"
 
+do_devshell[depends] += "virtual/fakeroot-native:do_populate_sysroot"
+do_devshell[fakeroot] = "1"
+
 # Must call real_do_rootfs() from inside here, rather than as a separate
 # task, so that we have a single fakeroot context for the whole process.
 do_rootfs[umask] = "022"