diff --git a/release/kata-deploy-binaries.sh b/release/kata-deploy-binaries.sh
index 374d72e60..e5d4886c9 100755
--- a/release/kata-deploy-binaries.sh
+++ b/release/kata-deploy-binaries.sh
@@ -104,6 +104,14 @@ install_kernel() {
 	popd >>/dev/null
 }
 
+# Install static nemu asset
+install_nemu() {
+	info "build static nemu"
+	"${script_dir}/../static-build/nemu/build-static-nemu.sh"
+	info "Install static nemu"
+	tar xf kata-nemu-static.tar.gz -C "${destdir}"
+}
+
 # Install static qemu asset
 install_qemu() {
 	info "build static qemu"
@@ -159,6 +167,12 @@ ${prefix}/bin/kata-runtime --kata-config "${prefix}/share/defaults/${project}/co
 EOT
 	sudo chmod +x kata-qemu
 
+	cat <<EOT | sudo tee kata-nemu
+#!/bin/bash
+${prefix}/bin/kata-runtime --kata-config "${prefix}/share/defaults/${project}/configuration-nemu.toml" \$@
+EOT
+	sudo chmod +x kata-nemu
+
 	popd
 }
 
@@ -183,6 +197,7 @@ main() {
 	install_kata_components
 	install_kernel
 	install_qemu
+	install_nemu
 	install_firecracker
 	tarball_name="${destdir}.tar.xz"
 	pushd "${destdir}" >>/dev/null
diff --git a/static-build/nemu/Dockerfile b/static-build/nemu/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1691a2a75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/static-build/nemu/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Intel Corporation
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+from ubuntu:18.04
+
+ARG NEMU_REPO
+ARG NEMU_VERSION
+ARG NEMU_OVMF
+ARG VIRTIOFSD_RELEASE
+ARG VIRTIOFSD
+
+WORKDIR /root/nemu
+RUN apt-get update
+RUN apt-get install -y \
+	    autoconf \
+	    automake \
+	    bc \
+	    bison \
+	    cpio \
+	    flex \
+	    gawk \
+	    libaudit-dev \
+	    libcap-dev \
+	    libcap-ng-dev \
+	    libdw-dev \
+	    libelf-dev \
+	    libglib2.0-0 \
+	    libglib2.0-dev \
+	    libglib2.0-dev git \
+	    libltdl-dev \
+	    libpixman-1-dev \
+	    libtool \
+	    pkg-config \
+	    pkg-config \
+	    python \
+	    python-dev \
+	    rsync \
+	    wget \
+	    zlib1g-dev
+
+RUN cd  .. && git clone --depth=1 "${NEMU_REPO}" nemu
+RUN git checkout "${NEMU_VERSION}"
+RUN git clone https://github.com/qemu/capstone.git capstone
+RUN git clone https://github.com/qemu/keycodemapdb.git ui/keycodemapdb
+
+ADD configure-hypervisor.sh /root/configure-hypervisor.sh
+
+RUN PREFIX=/opt/kata /root/configure-hypervisor.sh -s kata-nemu | xargs ./configure \
+       --with-pkgversion=kata-static
+
+RUN make -j$(nproc)
+RUN make install DESTDIR=/tmp/nemu-static
+
+RUN wget "${NEMU_OVMF}" && mv OVMF.fd /tmp/nemu-static/opt/kata/share/kata-nemu/
+RUN mv /tmp/nemu-static/opt/kata/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 /tmp/nemu-static/opt/kata/bin/nemu-system-x86_64
+RUN wget "${VIRTIOFSD_RELEASE}/${VIRTIOFSD}" && chmod +x ${VIRTIOFSD} && mv ${VIRTIOFSD} /tmp/nemu-static/opt/kata/bin/
+
+RUN cd /tmp/nemu-static && tar -czvf kata-nemu-static.tar.gz *
diff --git a/static-build/nemu/Makefile b/static-build/nemu/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..97003df87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/static-build/nemu/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#Copyright (c) 2019 Intel Corporation
+#
+#SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+
+MK_DIR :=$(shell dirname $(realpath $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))))
+CONFIG_DIR := $(MK_DIR)/../../scripts/
+
+build:
+	"$(MK_DIR)/build-static-nemu.sh"
+
+clean:
+	rm -f kata-nemu-static.tar.gz
diff --git a/static-build/nemu/build-static-nemu.sh b/static-build/nemu/build-static-nemu.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..c8c304961
--- /dev/null
+++ b/static-build/nemu/build-static-nemu.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Intel Corporation
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
+set -o pipefail
+
+script_dir="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+
+source "${script_dir}/../../scripts/lib.sh"
+
+config_dir="${script_dir}/../../scripts/"
+
+nemu_repo="${nemu_repo:-}"
+nemu_version="${nemu_version:-}"
+nemu_ovmf_repo="${nemu_ovmf_repo:-}"
+nemu_ovmf_version="${nemu_ovmf_version:-}"
+
+if [ -z "$nemu_repo" ]; then
+	info "Get nemu information from runtime versions.yaml"
+	nemu_repo=$(get_from_kata_deps "assets.hypervisor.nemu.url")
+fi
+[ -n "$nemu_repo" ] || die "failed to get nemu repo"
+
+[ -n "$nemu_version" ] || nemu_version=$(get_from_kata_deps "assets.hypervisor.nemu.version")
+[ -n "$nemu_version" ] || die "failed to get nemu version"
+
+if [ -z "$nemu_ovmf_repo" ]; then
+	info "Get nemu information from runtime versions.yaml"
+	nemu_ovmf_repo=$(get_from_kata_deps "assets.hypervisor.nemu-ovmf.url")
+	[ -n "$nemu_ovmf_repo" ] || die "failed to get nemu ovmf repo url"
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$nemu_ovmf_version" ]; then
+	nemu_ovmf_version=$(get_from_kata_deps "assets.hypervisor.nemu-ovmf.version")
+	[ -n "$nemu_ovmf_version" ] || die "failed to get nemu ovmf version"
+fi
+
+nemu_virtiofsd_binary="virtiofsd-x86_64"
+nemu_virtiofsd_release="${nemu_repo}/releases/download/${nemu_version}"
+nemu_ovmf_release="${nemu_ovmf_repo}/releases/download/${nemu_ovmf_version}/OVMF.fd"
+info "Build ${nemu_repo} version: ${nemu_version}"
+
+http_proxy="${http_proxy:-}"
+https_proxy="${https_proxy:-}"
+
+docker build \
+	--build-arg http_proxy="${http_proxy}" \
+	--build-arg https_proxy="${https_proxy}" \
+	--build-arg NEMU_REPO="${nemu_repo}" \
+	--build-arg NEMU_VERSION="${nemu_version}" \
+	--build-arg NEMU_OVMF="${nemu_ovmf_release}" \
+	--build-arg VIRTIOFSD_RELEASE="${nemu_virtiofsd_release}" \
+	--build-arg VIRTIOFSD="${nemu_virtiofsd_binary}" \
+	"${config_dir}" \
+	-f "${script_dir}/Dockerfile" \
+	-t nemu-static
+
+docker run \
+	-i \
+	-v "${PWD}":/share nemu-static \
+	mv /tmp/nemu-static/kata-nemu-static.tar.gz /share/