diff --git a/os-posix.c b/os-posix.c
index 804e20c189..00133a0c76 100644
--- a/os-posix.c
+++ b/os-posix.c
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
 #include <signal.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/wait.h>
+/*needed for MAP_POPULATE before including qemu-options.h */
+#include <sys/mman.h>
 #include <pwd.h>
 #include <libgen.h>