diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1e0bb5f2..7e33521d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -234,6 +234,10 @@ dependencies = [
  "vmm-sys-util",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "vm-vcpu-ref"
+version = "0.1.0"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "vmm"
 version = "0.1.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e214d535..aa0039fb 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ vmm = { path = "src/vmm" }
 api = { path = "src/api" }
 
 [workspace]
+members = ["src/vm-vcpu-ref"]
 
 [profile.dev]
 panic = "abort"
diff --git a/coverage_config_x86_64.json b/coverage_config_x86_64.json
index 887ad1ed..c6341d19 100644
--- a/coverage_config_x86_64.json
+++ b/coverage_config_x86_64.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "coverage_score": 70.4,
+  "coverage_score": 70.3,
   "exclude_path": "msr_index.rs,mpspec.rs,tests/,src/devices/src/virtio/net/bindings.rs",
   "crate_features": ""
 }
diff --git a/rust-vmm-ci b/rust-vmm-ci
index 7931077c..b037be33 160000
--- a/rust-vmm-ci
+++ b/rust-vmm-ci
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 7931077cdc577edc20af54bf4786de750886fb85
+Subproject commit b037be339677c2f24b7ba676fc9ff893ad474305
diff --git a/src/vm-vcpu-ref/.buildkite/custom-tests.json b/src/vm-vcpu-ref/.buildkite/custom-tests.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..247b72bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/vm-vcpu-ref/.buildkite/custom-tests.json
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  "tests": [
+    {
+      "test_name": "vm-vcpu_coverage",
+      "command": "cd src/vm-vcpu-ref/ && pytest rust-vmm-ci/integration_tests/test_coverage.py --test-scope crate",
+      "platform": [
+        "x86_64"
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/src/vm-vcpu-ref/Cargo.toml b/src/vm-vcpu-ref/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6fb4d1c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/vm-vcpu-ref/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+[package]
+name = "vm-vcpu-ref"
+version = "0.1.0"
+authors = ["rust-vmm AWS maintainers <rust-vmm-maintainers@amazon.com>"]
+edition = "2018"
+description = "Wrappers for setting up a VM for booting"
+repository = "https://github.com/rust-vmm/vmm-reference"
+readme = "README.md"
+license = "Apache-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause"
+keywords = ["virt", "kvm", "vm"]
+
+[dependencies]
diff --git a/src/vm-vcpu-ref/README.md b/src/vm-vcpu-ref/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d2af0dbd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/vm-vcpu-ref/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# Crate Name
+
+## Design
+
+TODO: This section should have a high-level design of the crate.
+
+Some questions that might help in writing this section:
+- What is the purpose of this crate?
+- What are the main components of the crate? How do they interact which each
+  other?
+
+## Usage
+
+TODO: This section describes how the crate is used.
+
+Some questions that might help in writing this section:
+- What traits do users need to implement?
+- Does the crate have any default/optional features? What is each feature
+  doing?
+- Is this crate used by other rust-vmm components? If yes, how?
+
+## Examples
+
+TODO: Usage examples.
+
+```rust
+use my_crate;
+
+...
+```
+
+## License
+
+**!!!NOTICE**: The BSD-3-Clause license is not included in this template.
+The license needs to be manually added because the text of the license file
+also includes the copyright. The copyright can be different for different
+crates. If the crate contains code from CrosVM, the crate must add the
+CrosVM copyright which can be found
+[here](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/+/master/LICENSE).
+For crates developed from scratch, the copyright is different and depends on
+the contributors.
diff --git a/src/vm-vcpu-ref/coverage_config_x86_64.json b/src/vm-vcpu-ref/coverage_config_x86_64.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..789197c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/vm-vcpu-ref/coverage_config_x86_64.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+    "coverage_score": 33.3,
+    "exclude_path": "",
+    "crate_features": ""
+}
diff --git a/src/vm-vcpu-ref/rust-vmm-ci b/src/vm-vcpu-ref/rust-vmm-ci
new file mode 120000
index 00000000..d4f0f246
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/vm-vcpu-ref/rust-vmm-ci
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../rust-vmm-ci
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/vm-vcpu-ref/src/lib.rs b/src/vm-vcpu-ref/src/lib.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a285917f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/vm-vcpu-ref/src/lib.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+pub fn main() {
+    println!("It works!");
+}