2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runqemu.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runqemu.py
index 8805a3837e..1991be7d0c 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runqemu.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runqemu.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ SYSLINUX_TIMEOUT = "10"
         cmd = "%s %s iso" % (self.cmd_common, self.machine)
         with runqemu(self.recipe, ssh=False, launch_cmd=cmd) as qemu:
             with open(qemu.qemurunnerlog) as f:
-                self.assertTrue(' -cdrom ' in f.read(), "Failed: %s" % cmd)
+                self.assertTrue('media=cdrom' in f.read(), "Failed: %s" % cmd)
 
     @OETestID(2004)
     def test_boot_recipe_image(self):
diff --git a/scripts/runqemu b/scripts/runqemu
index fd2717ec87..1131324ccc 100755
--- a/scripts/runqemu
+++ b/scripts/runqemu
@@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@ class BaseConfig(object):
             vm_drive = ''
             if self.fstype in self.vmtypes:
                 if self.fstype == 'iso':
-                    vm_drive = '-cdrom %s' % self.rootfs
+                    vm_drive = '-drive file=%s,if=virtio,media=cdrom' % self.rootfs
                 elif self.get('QB_DRIVE_TYPE'):
                     drive_type = self.get('QB_DRIVE_TYPE')
                     if drive_type.startswith("/dev/sd"):