diff --git a/.oebuild/features/containerd.yaml b/.oebuild/features/containerd.yaml
index 6f8bd306d55bc3d52beb1af87422ff8265e6da68..25db817dd7f5604368bf85e45675e07eb3d95116 100644
--- a/.oebuild/features/containerd.yaml
+++ b/.oebuild/features/containerd.yaml
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ layers:
 
 local_conf: |
   DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " virtualization containerd "
+  VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_container_engine:append = " containerd "
diff --git a/.oebuild/features/isulad.yaml b/.oebuild/features/isulad.yaml
index 90eb53d58f99547ef73c5ad3b00d87ef73b43254..40fc6fdcea8995654baaa1381fcf883c6b4bb67c 100644
--- a/.oebuild/features/isulad.yaml
+++ b/.oebuild/features/isulad.yaml
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ support: qemu-aarch64|raspberrypi4-64|hieulerpi1|kp920
 
 local_conf: |
   DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " isulad "
+  VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_container_engine:append = " isulad "
diff --git a/meta-openeuler/conf/distro/openeuler.conf b/meta-openeuler/conf/distro/openeuler.conf
index b35badc684f1db43575c921fa62b1b16ae096470..7df2e286e75fa703ad66e154254f7e37d9ad6456 100644
--- a/meta-openeuler/conf/distro/openeuler.conf
+++ b/meta-openeuler/conf/distro/openeuler.conf
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_dev_manager ?= "${@['systemd', 'busybox-mdev']['${INIT_MANAGER}'
 OPENEULER_DEFAULT_DISTRO_FEATURES = "pam"
 # define root home, default /home/root
 ROOT_HOME ?= "/root"
+# list of container engine (like cri-o, wasm-edge, docker, podman, containerd, isulad)
+# currently we support "isulad", "containerd"
+# usefull for higher version of meta-virtualization
+VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_container_engine ?= ""
 
 DISTRO_FEATURES ?= "${DISTRO_FEATURES_DEFAULT} ${OPENEULER_DEFAULT_DISTRO_FEATURES}"
 
@@ -116,9 +120,9 @@ DL_DIR ?= "${OPENEULER_SP_DIR}/downloads"
 # openEuler repos's path has a higher priority than yocto's path.
 # For example,  file://busybox.conf may exist both yocto's path and openeuler's
 # repo path. by default, openeuler's busybox.conf will be used not yocto's.
-# However this may cause some issues,  the unmatch of runtime conf from openeuler 
+# However this may cause some issues,  the unmatch of runtime conf from openeuler
 # and build configuration from yocto. Taking rsyslog as example, yocto's build
-# does not enable imjournal module, but the rsyslog.conf from openeuler assume 
+# does not enable imjournal module, but the rsyslog.conf from openeuler assume
 # imjournal module enabled with systemd, this unmatch will cause error of rsyslog.
 # A better way is to use yocto's rsyslog.conf to match yocto's build.
 # To fix it, you can do it in ryslog.bbappend, or set yocto's path has a higher priority