diff --git a/mantle/cmd/kola/qemuexec.go b/mantle/cmd/kola/qemuexec.go
index 5a16be4011759c9dbfcfd3456f92d91d3dfa2b48..93082545ef49e219b351c4fea02f42a880a759d5 100644
--- a/mantle/cmd/kola/qemuexec.go
+++ b/mantle/cmd/kola/qemuexec.go
@@ -84,9 +84,10 @@ func init() {
 	cmdQemuExec.Flags().StringVarP(&firstbootkargs, "firstbootkargs", "", "", "Additional first boot kernel arguments")
 	cmdQemuExec.Flags().StringArrayVar(&kargs, "kargs", nil, "Additional kernel arguments applied")
 	cmdQemuExec.Flags().BoolVarP(&usernet, "usernet", "U", false, "Enable usermode networking")
-	cmdQemuExec.Flags().StringSliceVar(&ignitionFragments, "add-ignition", nil, "Append well-known Ignition fragment: [\"autologin\", \"autoresize\"]")
+	cmdQemuExec.Flags().StringSliceVar(&ignitionFragments, "add-ignition", nil, "Append well-known Ignition fragment: [\"autologin\", \"autoresize\", \"noautoupdate\"]")
 	cmdQemuExec.Flags().StringVarP(&hostname, "hostname", "", "", "Set hostname via DHCP")
 	cmdQemuExec.Flags().IntVarP(&memory, "memory", "m", 0, "Memory in MB")
+	cmdQemuExec.Flags().StringVar(&architecture, "arch", "", "Use full emulation for target architecture (e.g. aarch64, x86_64, s390x, ppc64le)")
 	cmdQemuExec.Flags().StringArrayVarP(&addDisks, "add-disk", "D", []string{}, "Additional disk, human readable size (repeatable)")
 	cmdQemuExec.Flags().BoolVar(&cpuCountHost, "auto-cpus", false, "Automatically set number of cpus to host count")
 	cmdQemuExec.Flags().BoolVar(&directIgnition, "ignition-direct", false, "Do not parse Ignition, pass directly to instance")
@@ -113,6 +114,8 @@ func renderFragments(fragments []string, c *conf.Conf) error {
 			c.AddAutoLogin()
 		case "autoresize":
 			c.AddAutoResize()
+		case "noautoupdate":
+			c.DisableAutomaticUpdates()
 		default:
 			return fmt.Errorf("Unknown fragment: %s", fragtype)
 		}
@@ -247,6 +250,12 @@ func runQemuExec(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 	builder := platform.NewQemuBuilder()
 	defer builder.Close()
 
+	if architecture != "" {
+		if err := builder.SetArchitecture(architecture); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+
 	var config *conf.Conf
 	if butane != "" {
 		buf, err := os.ReadFile(butane)
diff --git a/mantle/platform/machine/qemu/cluster.go b/mantle/platform/machine/qemu/cluster.go
index 8b0e4dce99cdbeca01b4ac8fe15e4612c4b49b89..28d159f01535d26b0617d83f98eeb78752524c21 100644
--- a/mantle/platform/machine/qemu/cluster.go
+++ b/mantle/platform/machine/qemu/cluster.go
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strconv"
+	"strings"
 
 	"sync"
 	"time"
@@ -120,6 +121,13 @@ func (qc *Cluster) NewMachineWithQemuOptions(userdata *conf.UserData, options pl
 	builder.Hostname = fmt.Sprintf("qemu%d", qc.BaseCluster.AllocateMachineSerial())
 	builder.ConsoleFile = qm.consolePath
 
+	// This one doesn't support configuring the path because we can't
+	// reliably change the Ignition config here...
+	for _, path := range qc.flight.opts.BindRO {
+		destpathrel := strings.TrimLeft(path, "/")
+		builder.MountHost(path, "/kola/host/"+destpathrel, true)
+	}
+
 	if qc.flight.opts.Memory != "" {
 		memory, err := strconv.ParseInt(qc.flight.opts.Memory, 10, 32)
 		if err != nil {
diff --git a/mantle/platform/machine/qemu/flight.go b/mantle/platform/machine/qemu/flight.go
index 188fd599e90db97c0dd6608c0f6a87e0686cdf41..8abc4db8e633e10d0d066c8fcfa67612229b8051 100644
--- a/mantle/platform/machine/qemu/flight.go
+++ b/mantle/platform/machine/qemu/flight.go
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ type Options struct {
 	//Option to create a temporary software TPM - true by default
 	Swtpm bool
 
+	// Array of $hostpath
+	BindRO []string
+
 	//IBM Secure Execution
 	SecureExecution               bool
 	SecureExecutionIgnitionPubKey string
diff --git a/mantle/platform/qemu.go b/mantle/platform/qemu.go
index ccdbe66e7678d950d5efe1167e7fb521928a1307..38e6bafcd9e608daedee655f81e30c1a14016c6d 100644
--- a/mantle/platform/qemu.go
+++ b/mantle/platform/qemu.go
@@ -692,11 +692,12 @@ func (builder *QemuBuilder) setupAdditionalNetworking() error {
 // SetArchitecture enables qemu full emulation for the target architecture.
 func (builder *QemuBuilder) SetArchitecture(arch string) error {
 	switch arch {
-	case "x86_64", "aarch64", "s390x", "ppc64le":
+	//case "x86_64", "aarch64", "s390x", "ppc64le":
+	case "x86_64", "aarch64":
 		builder.architecture = arch
 		return nil
 	}
-	return fmt.Errorf("architecture %s not supported by coreos-assembler qemu", arch)
+	return fmt.Errorf("architecture %s not supported by nestos-assembler qemu", arch)
 }
 
 // SetSecureExecution enables qemu confidential guest support and adds hostkey to ignition config.
diff --git a/src/deps.txt b/src/deps.txt
index 50cbafc2c0ce2b8af96ede59460e07ba77935414..5d38e443d93936c101bfa7bfdc3792125c64536b 100644
--- a/src/deps.txt
+++ b/src/deps.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ make git rpm-build
 libguestfs-tools libguestfs-tools-c virtiofsd /usr/bin/qemu-img qemu-kvm swtpm
 # And the main arch emulators for cross-arch testing
 #qemu-system-aarch64-core qemu-system-ppc-core qemu-system-s390x-core qemu-system-x86-core
-qemu-system-aarch64-core qemu-system-x86-core
+qemu-system-aarch64 qemu-system-x86
 
 # Useful for moving files around
 rsync