diff --git a/rpm/build-tarball.sh b/rpm/build-tarball.sh
index 6f0e072d..cb605991 100755
--- a/rpm/build-tarball.sh
+++ b/rpm/build-tarball.sh
@@ -7,16 +7,24 @@ set -e
 VITASTOR=$(dirname $0)
 VITASTOR=$(realpath "$VITASTOR/..")
 
-. /opt/rh/devtoolset-9/enable
+if [ -d /opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9 ]; then
+    # CentOS 8
+    EL=8
+    . /opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/enable
+else
+    # CentOS 7
+    EL=7
+    . /opt/rh/devtoolset-9/enable
+fi
 cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
 rpmbuild -bp fio.spec
-perl -i -pe 's/^make V=1/exit 0; make V=1/' qemu.spec
-rpmbuild -bc qemu.spec
-perl -i -pe 's/^exit 0; make V=1/make V=1/' qemu.spec
+perl -i -pe 's/^make V=1/exit 0; make V=1/' qemu*.spec
+rpmbuild -bc qemu*.spec
+perl -i -pe 's/^exit 0; make V=1/make V=1/' qemu*.spec
 cd ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/qemu*/
 rm -rf $VITASTOR/qemu $VITASTOR/fio
 mkdir -p $VITASTOR/qemu/b/qemu
-make config-host.h
+make -j8 config-host.h
 cp config-host.h $VITASTOR/qemu/b/qemu
 cp -r include $VITASTOR/qemu
 if [ -f qapi-schema.json ]; then
@@ -37,7 +45,7 @@ sh copy-fio-includes.sh
 rm fio
 mv fio-copy fio
 FIO=`rpm -qa fio | perl -pe 's/^fio-(.*)\.[^\.]+$/$1/'`
-QEMU=`rpm -qa qemu | perl -pe 's/^qemu-(.*)\.[^\.]+$/$1/'`
-perl -i -pe 's/(Requires:\s*fio)([^\n]+)?/$1 = '$FIO'/' $VITASTOR/rpm/vitastor.spec
-perl -i -pe 's/(Requires:\s*qemu)([^\n]+)?/$1 = '$QEMU'/' $VITASTOR/rpm/vitastor.spec
+QEMU=`rpm -qa qemu qemu-kvm | perl -pe 's/^qemu-(?:kvm-)?(.*)\.[^\.]+$/$1/'`
+perl -i -pe 's/(Requires:\s*fio)([^\n]+)?/$1 = '$FIO'/' $VITASTOR/rpm/vitastor-el$EL.spec
+perl -i -pe 's/(Requires:\s*qemu)([^\n]+)?/$1 = '$QEMU'/' $VITASTOR/rpm/vitastor-el$EL.spec
 tar --transform 's#^#vitastor-0.5/#' --exclude 'rpm/*.rpm' -czf $VITASTOR/../vitastor-0.5$(rpm --eval '%dist').tar.gz *
diff --git a/rpm/prepare-env.sh b/rpm/prepare-env.sh
index f4808833..ee6d8db7 100755
--- a/rpm/prepare-env.sh
+++ b/rpm/prepare-env.sh
@@ -1,15 +1,28 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-# Install/get required packages on CentOS 7
+# Install/get required packages on CentOS 7 and 8
 
 set -e
 
+DIST=`rpm --eval '%dist'`
 rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo
-yum -y --enablerepo=extras install centos-release-scl epel-release yum-utils rpm-build qemu fio
-yum -y --enablerepo='*' install devtoolset-9-gcc-c++ devtoolset-9-libatomic-devel gperftools-devel
-yumdownloader --source qemu
-yumdownloader --source fio
-rpm --nomd5 -i qemu*.src.rpm
-rpm --nomd5 -i fio*.src.rpm
-cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
-yum-builddep -y --enablerepo='*' qemu.spec
-yum-builddep -y --enablerepo='*' fio.spec
+if [ "$DIST" = ".el8" ]; then
+    dnf -y install centos-release-advanced-virtualization rpm-build
+    dnf -y install gcc-toolset-9 gcc-toolset-9-gcc-c++ gperftools-devel qemu fio
+    dnf download --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo='centos-advanced-virtualization-source' --source qemu-kvm
+    dnf download --source fio
+    rpm --nomd5 -i qemu*.src.rpm
+    rpm --nomd5 -i fio*.src.rpm
+    cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
+    dnf builddep -y --enablerepo='*' --spec qemu-kvm.spec
+    dnf builddep -y --enablerepo='*' --spec fio.spec
+else
+    yum -y --enablerepo=extras install centos-release-scl epel-release yum-utils rpm-build qemu fio
+    yum -y --enablerepo='*' install devtoolset-9-gcc-c++ devtoolset-9-libatomic-devel gperftools-devel
+    yumdownloader --source qemu
+    yumdownloader --source fio
+    rpm --nomd5 -i qemu*.src.rpm
+    rpm --nomd5 -i fio*.src.rpm
+    cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
+    yum-builddep -y --enablerepo='*' qemu.spec
+    yum-builddep -y --enablerepo='*' fio.spec
+fi
diff --git a/rpm/vitastor.spec b/rpm/vitastor-el7.spec
similarity index 100%
rename from rpm/vitastor.spec
rename to rpm/vitastor-el7.spec
diff --git a/rpm/vitastor-el8.spec b/rpm/vitastor-el8.spec
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d5ed9567
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rpm/vitastor-el8.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+Name:           vitastor
+Version:        0.5
+Release:        1%{?dist}
+Summary:        Vitastor, a fast software-defined clustered block storage
+
+License:        Vitastor Network Public License 1.0
+URL:            https://vitastor.io/
+Source0:        vitastor-0.5.el8.tar.gz
+
+BuildRequires:  liburing-devel >= 0.6
+BuildRequires:  gperftools-devel
+BuildRequires:  gcc-toolset-9-gcc-c++
+BuildRequires:  nodejs >= 10
+Requires:       fio = 3.7-3.el8
+Requires:       qemu = 4.2.0-29.el8.6
+Requires:       nodejs >= 10
+Requires:       liburing >= 0.6
+
+%description
+Vitastor is a small, simple and fast clustered block storage (storage for VM drives),
+architecturally similar to Ceph which means strong consistency, primary-replication,
+symmetric clustering and automatic data distribution over any number of drives of any
+size with configurable redundancy (replication or erasure codes/XOR).
+
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+
+%build
+. /opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/enable
+make %{?_smp_mflags}
+
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+%make_install BINDIR=%_bindir LIBDIR=%_libdir QEMU_PLUGINDIR=%_libdir/qemu-kvm
+cd mon
+npm install
+cd ..
+cp -r mon %buildroot%_libdir/vitastor/mon
+
+
+%files
+%doc
+%_bindir/vitastor-dump-journal
+%_bindir/vitastor-nbd
+%_bindir/vitastor-osd
+%_bindir/vitastor-rm
+%_libdir/qemu-kvm/block-vitastor.so
+%_libdir/vitastor
+
+
+%changelog