diff --git a/app-emulation/virtualbmc/Manifest b/app-emulation/virtualbmc/Manifest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2492229
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-emulation/virtualbmc/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+AUX virtualbmc-initd 386 BLAKE2B 10869cc1eba8fad2538c4381cd2ba21ebb0d72468462f86777923ff5b28bef9eccdae8cdfc6846b7bbc6a6b6710aedfd71e479dea3a84e6a76fd8a220c689df0 SHA512 0486b2a8e2cecda2aea317ea5638390fb6ea31533a284d41805e88af6d111042f4b8cff23b0b6e5134fd28a1ab30c08e1901af0d205448507ca993fd54fb6924
+DIST virtualbmc-1.4.0.tar.gz 36390 BLAKE2B 58d6a717778403cb2fe9cf6e8acf9ecc1cfaf77598d8a3e63bd7914e31ce4db1cff4f9fd6df8416ec3087bdc38b86c5130b948bbb5d648f5b411f0d3808e19e7 SHA512 665e4b8bbf221a65bf3b13a5a86184889dfb487b97294854b7133d4eeda3003e09403acb393a10badd6b2a1464810bf881f4de3c1995ce4f83942d0252c1b11b
+EBUILD virtualbmc-1.4.0.ebuild 988 BLAKE2B a457df1bbf5c9c6e5a31b2fc05ec7a268642726fc5ead894413edf1e8b2d963e128ce8ade69fd6b17cef416dcfedff5b4a22b0efd4e7bb898ecb55394406196e SHA512 28d1834c60f709f07dd409055744de81b00fd40cb2b2338c706936c6c02d586688fb652e15a6d2a3ac9e96376de40ffd76a29a0d024627ded66b7e1f8a4bcc62
diff --git a/app-emulation/virtualbmc/files/virtualbmc-initd b/app-emulation/virtualbmc/files/virtualbmc-initd
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b99f608
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-emulation/virtualbmc/files/virtualbmc-initd
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/sbin/openrc-run
+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+description="A virtual BMC for controlling virtual machines using IPMI commands"
+pidfile="/var/run/vbmcd.pid"
+command="/usr/sbin/vbmcd"
+start_stop_daemon_args="--pidfile ${pidfile}"
+
+depend() {
+	use net dns logger
+	after libvirtd
+}
+
+start_pre() {
+	return 0
+}
diff --git a/app-emulation/virtualbmc/virtualbmc-1.4.0.ebuild b/app-emulation/virtualbmc/virtualbmc-1.4.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b9258ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-emulation/virtualbmc/virtualbmc-1.4.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# Copyright 2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{4,5,6} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 eutils
+
+DESCRIPTION="A virtual BMC for controlling virtual machines using IPMI commands"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/openstack/virtualbmc"
+SRC_URI="https://tarballs.openstack.org/virtualbmc/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND="dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/six-1.10.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/pbr-2.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		!~dev-python/pbr-2.1.0
+		dev-python/libvirt-python[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		!~dev-python/libvirt-python-4.1.0
+		>=dev-python/pyghmi-1.0.22[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/cliff-2.8.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		!~dev-python/cliff-2.9.0
+		>=dev-python/pyzmq-14.3.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+BDEPEND=""
+
+python_install_all() {
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+
+	newinitd "${FILESDIR}"/virtualbmc-initd vbmcd
+}
+