diff --git a/board/coreos/minikube/linux-4.7_defconfig b/board/coreos/minikube/linux-4.7_defconfig
index 186bd7206ce3..c847b475a2e9 100644
--- a/board/coreos/minikube/linux-4.7_defconfig
+++ b/board/coreos/minikube/linux-4.7_defconfig
@@ -210,6 +210,8 @@ CONFIG_CFG80211=y
 CONFIG_MAC80211=y
 CONFIG_MAC80211_LEDS=y
 CONFIG_RFKILL=y
+CONFIG_NET_9P=m
+CONFIG_NET_9P_VIRTIO=m
 CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="/sbin/hotplug"
 CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
 CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y
@@ -350,6 +352,9 @@ CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
 CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL=y
 CONFIG_NFS_V4=y
 CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y
+CONFIG_9P_FS=m
+CONFIG_9P_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
+CONFIG_9P_FS_SECURITY=y
 CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="utf8"
 CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
 CONFIG_NLS_ASCII=y