diff --git a/releases/portage/stages-qemu/env/releng/nosandbox b/releases/portage/stages-qemu/env/releng/nosandbox
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7a02010b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releases/portage/stages-qemu/env/releng/nosandbox
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+FEATURES="-pid-sandbox -network-sandbox -ipc-sandbox -sandbox -usersandbox"
diff --git a/releases/portage/stages-qemu/env/releng/qemu b/releases/portage/stages-qemu/env/releng/qemu
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..de86517d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releases/portage/stages-qemu/env/releng/qemu
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+FEATURES="-pid-sandbox -network-sandbox -ipc-sandbox"
diff --git a/releases/portage/stages-qemu/package.env/releng/all b/releases/portage/stages-qemu/package.env/releng/all
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..60c290a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releases/portage/stages-qemu/package.env/releng/all
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*/* releng/qemu
diff --git a/releases/portage/stages-qemu/package.env/releng/glibc b/releases/portage/stages-qemu/package.env/releng/glibc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bf1f6f93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releases/portage/stages-qemu/package.env/releng/glibc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+sys-libs/glibc releng/nosandbox
diff --git a/releases/portage/stages-qemu/patches/dev-lang/python:3.8/compileall-singlethreaded.patch b/releases/portage/stages-qemu/patches/dev-lang/python:3.8/compileall-singlethreaded.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..27ab38ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releases/portage/stages-qemu/patches/dev-lang/python:3.8/compileall-singlethreaded.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+diff --git a/Makefile.pre.in b/Makefile.pre.in
+index 4924dedc35..75eb66be3c 100644
+--- a/Makefile.pre.in
++++ b/Makefile.pre.in
+@@ -1432,30 +1432,30 @@ libinstall:	build_all $(srcdir)/Modules/xxmodule.c
+ 	fi
+ 	-PYTHONPATH=$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)  $(RUNSHARED) \
+ 		$(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -Wi $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/compileall.py \
+-		-j0 -d $(LIBDEST) -f \
++		-d $(LIBDEST) -f \
+ 		-x 'bad_coding|badsyntax|site-packages|lib2to3/tests/data' \
+ 		$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)
+ 	-PYTHONPATH=$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST) $(RUNSHARED) \
+ 		$(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -Wi -O $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/compileall.py \
+-		-j0 -d $(LIBDEST) -f \
++		-d $(LIBDEST) -f \
+ 		-x 'bad_coding|badsyntax|site-packages|lib2to3/tests/data' \
+ 		$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)
+ 	-PYTHONPATH=$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST) $(RUNSHARED) \
+ 		$(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -Wi -OO $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/compileall.py \
+-		-j0 -d $(LIBDEST) -f \
++		-d $(LIBDEST) -f \
+ 		-x 'bad_coding|badsyntax|site-packages|lib2to3/tests/data' \
+ 		$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)
+ 	-PYTHONPATH=$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST) $(RUNSHARED) \
+ 		$(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -Wi $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/compileall.py \
+-		-j0 -d $(LIBDEST)/site-packages -f \
++		-d $(LIBDEST)/site-packages -f \
+ 		-x badsyntax $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/site-packages
+ 	-PYTHONPATH=$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST) $(RUNSHARED) \
+ 		$(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -Wi -O $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/compileall.py \
+-		-j0 -d $(LIBDEST)/site-packages -f \
++		-d $(LIBDEST)/site-packages -f \
+ 		-x badsyntax $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/site-packages
+ 	-PYTHONPATH=$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST) $(RUNSHARED) \
+ 		$(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -Wi -OO $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/compileall.py \
+-		-j0 -d $(LIBDEST)/site-packages -f \
++		-d $(LIBDEST)/site-packages -f \
+ 		-x badsyntax $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/site-packages
+ 	-PYTHONPATH=$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST) $(RUNSHARED) \
+ 		$(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -m lib2to3.pgen2.driver $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)/lib2to3/Grammar.txt