diff --git a/microdroid/Android.bp b/microdroid/Android.bp
index 5440695..2d3f084 100644
--- a/microdroid/Android.bp
+++ b/microdroid/Android.bp
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@
     "apex",
     "linkerconfig",
     "second_stage_resources",
+
+    // Ideally we should only create the /vendor for Microdroid VMs that will mount /vendor, but
+    // for the time being we will just create it unconditionally.
+    "vendor",
 ]
 
 microdroid_symlinks = [
diff --git a/microdroid/bootconfig.x86_64 b/microdroid/bootconfig.x86_64
index 6076889..eed9212 100644
--- a/microdroid/bootconfig.x86_64
+++ b/microdroid/bootconfig.x86_64
@@ -1 +1 @@
-androidboot.boot_devices = pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0,pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0,pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0
+androidboot.boot_devices = pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0,pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0,pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0,pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0
diff --git a/microdroid/fstab.microdroid b/microdroid/fstab.microdroid
index 9478c7c..da000b9 100644
--- a/microdroid/fstab.microdroid
+++ b/microdroid/fstab.microdroid
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
 system /system ext4 noatime,ro,errors=panic wait,slotselect,avb=vbmeta,first_stage_mount,logical
+# This is a temporary solution to unblock other devs that depend on /vendor partition in Microdroid
+# The /vendor partition will only be mounted if the kernel cmdline contains
+# androidboot.microdroid.mount_vendor=1.
+# TODO(b/285855430): this should probably be defined in the DT
+# TODO(b/285855436): should be mounted on top of dm-verity device
+/dev/block/by-name/microdroid-vendor /vendor ext4 noatime,ro,errors=panic wait,first_stage_mount