diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 3395abd..8d377a7 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -3115,3 +3115,10 @@ Performance Tools and Tests
 M: Ahmed Karaman <ahmedkhaledkaraman@gmail.com>
 S: Maintained
 F: scripts/performance/
+
+Environment variable helpers
+M: Steve Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
+M: Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com>
+S: Maintained
+F: include/qemu/env.h
+F: util/env.c
diff --git a/include/qemu/cutils.h b/include/qemu/cutils.h
index eb59852..d4c7d70 100644
--- a/include/qemu/cutils.h
+++ b/include/qemu/cutils.h
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #ifndef QEMU_CUTILS_H
 #define QEMU_CUTILS_H
 
+#include "qemu/env.h"
 /**
  * pstrcpy:
  * @buf: buffer to copy string into
diff --git a/include/qemu/env.h b/include/qemu/env.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..53cc121
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/qemu/env.h
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates.
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef QEMU_ENV_H
+#define QEMU_ENV_H
+
+#define FD_PREFIX "QEMU_FD_"
+#define ADDR_PREFIX "QEMU_ADDR_"
+#define LEN_PREFIX "QEMU_LEN_"
+#define BOOL_PREFIX "QEMU_BOOL_"
+
+typedef int (*walkenv_cb)(const char *name, const char *val, void *handle);
+
+bool getenv_ram(const char *name, void **addrp, size_t *lenp);
+void setenv_ram(const char *name, void *addr, size_t len);
+void unsetenv_ram(const char *name);
+int getenv_fd(const char *name);
+void setenv_fd(const char *name, int fd);
+void unsetenv_fd(const char *name);
+bool getenv_bool(const char *name);
+void setenv_bool(const char *name, bool val);
+void unsetenv_bool(const char *name);
+int walkenv(const char *prefix, walkenv_cb cb, void *handle);
+void printenv(void);
+
+#endif
diff --git a/util/Makefile.objs b/util/Makefile.objs
index cc5e371..d357932 100644
--- a/util/Makefile.objs
+++ b/util/Makefile.objs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-util-obj-y = osdep.o cutils.o unicode.o qemu-timer-common.o
+util-obj-y = osdep.o cutils.o unicode.o qemu-timer-common.o env.o
 util-obj-$(call lnot,$(CONFIG_ATOMIC64)) += atomic64.o
 util-obj-$(CONFIG_POSIX) += aio-posix.o
 util-obj-$(CONFIG_POSIX) += fdmon-poll.o
diff --git a/util/env.c b/util/env.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0cc4a9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util/env.c
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates.
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ *
+ */
+
+#include "qemu/osdep.h"
+#include "qemu/env.h"
+
+static uint64_t getenv_ulong(const char *prefix, const char *name, bool *found)
+{
+    char var[80], *val;
+    uint64_t res;
+
+    snprintf(var, sizeof(var), "%s%s", prefix, name);
+    val = getenv(var);
+    if (val) {
+        *found = true;
+        res = strtol(val, 0, 10);
+    } else {
+        *found = false;
+        res = 0;
+    }
+    return res;
+}
+
+static void setenv_ulong(const char *prefix, const char *name, uint64_t val)
+{
+    char var[80], val_str[80];
+    snprintf(var, sizeof(var), "%s%s", prefix, name);
+    snprintf(val_str, sizeof(val_str), "%"PRIu64, val);
+    setenv(var, val_str, 1);
+}
+
+static void unsetenv_ulong(const char *prefix, const char *name)
+{
+    char var[80];
+    snprintf(var, sizeof(var), "%s%s", prefix, name);
+    unsetenv(var);
+}
+
+bool getenv_ram(const char *name, void **addrp, size_t *lenp)
+{
+    bool found1, found2;
+    *addrp = (void *) getenv_ulong(ADDR_PREFIX, name, &found1);
+    *lenp = getenv_ulong(LEN_PREFIX, name, &found2);
+    assert(found1 == found2);
+    return found1;
+}
+
+void setenv_ram(const char *name, void *addr, size_t len)
+{
+    setenv_ulong(ADDR_PREFIX, name, (uint64_t)addr);
+    setenv_ulong(LEN_PREFIX, name, len);
+}
+
+void unsetenv_ram(const char *name)
+{
+    unsetenv_ulong(ADDR_PREFIX, name);
+    unsetenv_ulong(LEN_PREFIX, name);
+}
+
+int getenv_fd(const char *name)
+{
+    bool found;
+    int fd = getenv_ulong(FD_PREFIX, name, &found);
+    if (!found) {
+        fd = -1;
+    }
+    return fd;
+}
+
+void setenv_fd(const char *name, int fd)
+{
+    setenv_ulong(FD_PREFIX, name, fd);
+}
+
+void unsetenv_fd(const char *name)
+{
+    unsetenv_ulong(FD_PREFIX, name);
+}
+
+bool getenv_bool(const char *name)
+{
+    bool found;
+    bool val = getenv_ulong(BOOL_PREFIX, name, &found);
+    if (!found) {
+        val = -1;
+    }
+    return val;
+}
+
+void setenv_bool(const char *name, bool val)
+{
+    setenv_ulong(BOOL_PREFIX, name, val);
+}
+
+void unsetenv_bool(const char *name)
+{
+    unsetenv_ulong(BOOL_PREFIX, name);
+}
+
+int walkenv(const char *prefix, walkenv_cb cb, void *handle)
+{
+    char *str, name[128];
+    char **envp = environ;
+    size_t prefix_len = strlen(prefix);
+
+    while (*envp) {
+        str = *envp++;
+        if (!strncmp(str, prefix, prefix_len)) {
+            char *val = strchr(str, '=');
+            str += prefix_len;
+            strncpy(name, str, val - str);
+            name[val - str] = 0;
+            if (cb(name, val + 1, handle)) {
+                return 1;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    return 0;
+}
+
+void printenv(void)
+{
+    char **ptr = environ;
+    while (*ptr) {
+        puts(*ptr++);
+    }
+}
