diff --git a/config.yaml b/config.yaml
index 4fc73e6b..30879867 100644
--- a/config.yaml
+++ b/config.yaml
@@ -199,6 +199,14 @@ options:
       Sets vcpu_pin_set option in nova.conf which defines which pcpus that
       instance vcpus can or cannot use. For example '^0,^2' to reserve two
       cpus for the host.
+  cpu-shared-set:
+    type: string
+    default:
+    description: |
+      Sets compute/cpu_shared_set option in nova.conf defines which
+      physical CPUs will be used for best-effort guest vCPU resources.
+      Currently only used by libvirt driver to place guest emulator threads
+      when hw:emulator_threads_policy:share is set.
   virtio-net-tx-queue-size:
     type: int
     default:
diff --git a/hooks/nova_compute_context.py b/hooks/nova_compute_context.py
index 8963adcd..f0974161 100644
--- a/hooks/nova_compute_context.py
+++ b/hooks/nova_compute_context.py
@@ -253,6 +253,9 @@ class NovaComputeLibvirtContext(context.OSContextGenerator):
         if config('vcpu-pin-set'):
             ctxt['vcpu_pin_set'] = config('vcpu-pin-set')
 
+        if config('cpu-shared-set'):
+            ctxt['cpu_shared_set'] = config('cpu-shared-set')
+
         if config('virtio-net-tx-queue-size'):
             ctxt['virtio_net_tx_queue_size'] = (
                 config('virtio-net-tx-queue-size'))
diff --git a/templates/rocky/nova.conf b/templates/rocky/nova.conf
index c6a184f0..8aaf719f 100644
--- a/templates/rocky/nova.conf
+++ b/templates/rocky/nova.conf
@@ -264,3 +264,9 @@ disable_libvirt_livesnapshot = False
 {% include "parts/section-serial-console" %}
 
 {% include "parts/section-placement" %}
+
+[compute]
+{% if cpu_shared_set -%}
+cpu_shared_set = {{ cpu_shared_set }}
+{% endif -%}
+
diff --git a/unit_tests/test_nova_compute_contexts.py b/unit_tests/test_nova_compute_contexts.py
index 4618e8f0..6159c497 100644
--- a/unit_tests/test_nova_compute_contexts.py
+++ b/unit_tests/test_nova_compute_contexts.py
@@ -439,6 +439,7 @@ class NovaComputeContextTests(CharmTestCase):
         self.test_config.set('pci-passthrough-whitelist', 'mypcidevices')
         self.test_config.set('virtio-net-tx-queue-size', 512)
         self.test_config.set('virtio-net-rx-queue-size', 1024)
+        self.test_config.set('cpu-shared-set', "4-12,^8,15")
         libvirt = context.NovaComputeLibvirtContext()
 
         self.assertEqual(
@@ -455,7 +456,8 @@ class NovaComputeContextTests(CharmTestCase):
              'force_raw_images': True,
              'pci_passthrough_whitelist': 'mypcidevices',
              'virtio_net_tx_queue_size': 512,
-             'virtio_net_rx_queue_size': 1024}, libvirt())
+             'virtio_net_rx_queue_size': 1024,
+             'cpu_shared_set': "4-12,^8,15"}, libvirt())
 
     def test_ksm_configs(self):
         self.lsb_release.return_value = {'DISTRIB_CODENAME': 'lucid'}