diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/cmake.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/cmake.bbclass
index 41748b08207..68b4e83bbe8 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/cmake.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/cmake.bbclass
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 #
 
+inherit qemu
+
+EXEWRAPPER_ENABLED:class-native = "False"
+EXEWRAPPER_ENABLED:class-nativesdk = "False"
+EXEWRAPPER_ENABLED ?= "${@bb.utils.contains('MACHINE_FEATURES', 'qemu-usermode', 'True', 'False', d)}"
+DEPENDS:append = "${@' qemu-native' if d.getVar('EXEWRAPPER_ENABLED') == 'True' else ''}"
+
 # Path to the CMake file to process.
 OECMAKE_SOURCEPATH ??= "${S}"
 
@@ -156,6 +163,20 @@ EOF
 
 addtask generate_toolchain_file after do_patch before do_configure
 
+cmake_do_generate_toolchain_file:append:class-target() {
+    if [ "${EXEWRAPPER_ENABLED}" = "True" ]; then
+        # Write out a qemu wrapper that will be used as exe_wrapper so that camake
+        # can run target helper binaries through that. This also allows to execute ctest.
+        qemu_binary="${@qemu_wrapper_cmdline(d, '${STAGING_DIR_HOST}', ['${STAGING_DIR_HOST}/${libdir}','${STAGING_DIR_HOST}/${base_libdir}'])}"
+        echo "#!/bin/sh" > "${WORKDIR}/cmake-qemuwrapper"
+        echo "$qemu_binary \"\$@\"" >> "${WORKDIR}/cmake-qemuwrapper"
+        chmod +x "${WORKDIR}/cmake-qemuwrapper"
+        echo "set( CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING_EMULATOR ${WORKDIR}/cmake-qemuwrapper)" \
+          >> ${WORKDIR}/toolchain.cmake
+    fi
+}
+
+
 CONFIGURE_FILES = "CMakeLists.txt"
 
 do_configure[cleandirs] = "${@d.getVar('B') if d.getVar('S') != d.getVar('B') else ''}"