diff --git a/src/runtime/Makefile b/src/runtime/Makefile
index ea81aeef2..819833e03 100644
--- a/src/runtime/Makefile
+++ b/src/runtime/Makefile
@@ -553,14 +553,16 @@ define MAKE_KERNEL_VIRTIOFS_NAME
 $(if $(findstring uncompressed,$1),vmlinux-virtiofs.container,vmlinuz-virtiofs.container)
 endef
 
+GENERATED_CONFIG = $(abspath $(CLI_DIR)/config-generated.go)
 
-GENERATED_FILES += $(CLI_DIR)/config-generated.go
+GENERATED_FILES += $(GENERATED_CONFIG)
 GENERATED_FILES += pkg/katautils/config-settings.go
 
 $(TARGET_OUTPUT): $(SOURCES) $(GENERATED_FILES) $(MAKEFILE_LIST) | show-summary
 	$(QUIET_BUILD)(cd $(CLI_DIR) && go build $(KATA_LDFLAGS) $(BUILDFLAGS) -o $@ .)
 
 $(SHIMV2_OUTPUT): $(SOURCES) $(GENERATED_FILES) $(MAKEFILE_LIST)
+	$(QUIET_BUILD)(cd $(SHIMV2_DIR)/ && ln -fs $(GENERATED_CONFIG))
 	$(QUIET_BUILD)(cd $(SHIMV2_DIR)/ && go build $(KATA_LDFLAGS) $(BUILDFLAGS) -o $@ .)
 
 .PHONY: \
@@ -710,6 +712,7 @@ clean:
 		$(GENERATED_FILES) \
 		$(NETMON_TARGET) \
 		$(SHIMV2) \
+		$(SHIMV2_DIR)/$(notdir $(GENERATED_CONFIG)) \
 		$(TARGET) \
 		.git-commit .git-commit.tmp
 
diff --git a/src/runtime/cli/containerd-shim-kata-v2/main.go b/src/runtime/cli/containerd-shim-kata-v2/main.go
index b04412d1d..7ffa0dff6 100644
--- a/src/runtime/cli/containerd-shim-kata-v2/main.go
+++ b/src/runtime/cli/containerd-shim-kata-v2/main.go
@@ -6,15 +6,26 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+
 	"github.com/containerd/containerd/runtime/v2/shim"
 	"github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/src/runtime/containerd-shim-v2"
 )
 
+const shim_id = "io.containerd.kata.v2"
+
 func shimConfig(config *shim.Config) {
 	config.NoReaper = true
 	config.NoSubreaper = true
 }
 
 func main() {
-	shim.Run("io.containerd.kata.v2", containerdshim.New, shimConfig)
+
+	if len(os.Args) == 2 && os.Args[1] == "--version" {
+		fmt.Printf("%s containerd shim: id: %q, version: %s, commit: %v\n", project, shim_id, version, commit)
+		os.Exit(0)
+	}
+
+	shim.Run(shim_id, containerdshim.New, shimConfig)
 }