diff --git a/.buildkite/metricbeat/pipeline.yml b/.buildkite/metricbeat/pipeline.yml
index 7082869ba665..8be300f55806 100644
--- a/.buildkite/metricbeat/pipeline.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/metricbeat/pipeline.yml
@@ -164,7 +164,9 @@ steps:
 
       - label: ":ubuntu: Metricbeat: Crosscompile"
         key: "mandatory-cross-compile"
-        command: "make -C metricbeat crosscompile"
+        command: |
+          source .buildkite/scripts/qemu.sh
+          make -C metricbeat crosscompile
         retry:
           automatic:
             - limit: 1
diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/packaging/packaging.sh b/.buildkite/scripts/packaging/packaging.sh
index 98258068cee1..aeaa97db0388 100755
--- a/.buildkite/scripts/packaging/packaging.sh
+++ b/.buildkite/scripts/packaging/packaging.sh
@@ -1,26 +1,14 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 #
 # Centralise the mage package for a given beat in Buildkite.
-# It enables multi-arch builds to avoid the exec format errors when 
-# attempting to build arm64 inside arm64 workers.
-#
-# For further details, see https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/6948
-# and https://github.com/elastic/golang-crossbuild/pull/507
 #
 
 set -ueo pipefail
 
 BEAT_DIR=${1:?-"Error: Beat directory must be specified."}
 
-if [[ "$(uname -m)" == "aarch64" || "$(uname -m)" == "arm64" ]]; then
-    echo "Skipping qemu installation on arm64 worker"
-else
-    BINFMT_IMAGE="tonistiigi/binfmt:qemu-v9.2.2"
-
-    # Make sure to uninstall first to avoid conflicts
-    docker run --privileged --rm "$BINFMT_IMAGE" --uninstall qemu-*
-    docker run --privileged --rm "$BINFMT_IMAGE" --install all
-fi
+# shellcheck source=/dev/null
+source .buildkite/scripts/qemu.sh
 
 cd $BEAT_DIR
 mage package
diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/qemu.sh b/.buildkite/scripts/qemu.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..65488931d2e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/scripts/qemu.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# It enables multi-arch builds to avoid the exec format errors when 
+# attempting to build arm64 inside arm64 workers.
+#
+# For further details, see https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/6948
+# and https://github.com/elastic/golang-crossbuild/pull/507
+#
+set -euo pipefail
+
+if [[ "$(uname -m)" == "aarch64" || "$(uname -m)" == "arm64" ]]; then
+    echo "Skipping qemu installation on arm64 worker"
+else
+    BINFMT_IMAGE="tonistiigi/binfmt:qemu-v9.2.2"
+
+    # Make sure to uninstall first to avoid conflicts
+    docker run --privileged --rm "$BINFMT_IMAGE" --uninstall qemu-*
+    docker run --privileged --rm "$BINFMT_IMAGE" --install all
+fi
diff --git a/.buildkite/x-pack/pipeline.xpack.dockerlogbeat.yml b/.buildkite/x-pack/pipeline.xpack.dockerlogbeat.yml
index 85b8634b90f0..4f74f99ae0b6 100644
--- a/.buildkite/x-pack/pipeline.xpack.dockerlogbeat.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/x-pack/pipeline.xpack.dockerlogbeat.yml
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ steps:
       - label: ":ubuntu: x-pack/dockerlogbeat: Ubuntu x86_64 Unit Tests"
         key: "mandatory-linux-unit-test"
         command: |
+          source .buildkite/scripts/qemu.sh
           cd x-pack/dockerlogbeat
           mage build unitTest
         retry: