diff --git a/drivers/shared/executor/executor_test.go b/drivers/shared/executor/executor_test.go
index 05ab48938..aca70a6b4 100644
--- a/drivers/shared/executor/executor_test.go
+++ b/drivers/shared/executor/executor_test.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"runtime"
 	"strings"
 	"syscall"
 	"testing"
@@ -58,6 +59,8 @@ func testExecutorCommand(t *testing.T) (*ExecCommand, *allocdir.AllocDir) {
 			DiskMB:   task.Resources.DiskMB,
 		},
 	}
+
+	setupRootfs(t, td.Dir)
 	configureTLogging(cmd)
 	return cmd, allocDir
 }
@@ -123,6 +126,7 @@ func TestExecutor_Start_Wait(pt *testing.T) {
 			execCmd, allocDir := testExecutorCommand(t)
 			execCmd.Cmd = "/bin/echo"
 			execCmd.Args = []string{"hello world"}
+
 			defer allocDir.Destroy()
 			executor := factory(testlog.HCLogger(t))
 			defer executor.Shutdown("", 0)
@@ -190,7 +194,7 @@ func TestExecutor_Start_Kill(pt *testing.T) {
 			require := require.New(t)
 			execCmd, allocDir := testExecutorCommand(t)
 			execCmd.Cmd = "/bin/sleep"
-			execCmd.Args = []string{"10 && hello world"}
+			execCmd.Args = []string{"10"}
 			defer allocDir.Destroy()
 			executor := factory(testlog.HCLogger(t))
 			defer executor.Shutdown("", 0)
@@ -281,3 +285,36 @@ func TestUniversalExecutor_LookupPath(t *testing.T) {
 	require.Nil(err)
 
 }
+
+// setupRoootfs setups the rootfs for libcontainer executor
+// It uses busybox to make some binaries available - somewhat cheaper
+// than mounting the underlying host filesystem
+func setupRootfs(t *testing.T, rootfs string) {
+	paths := []string{
+		"/bin/sh",
+		"/bin/sleep",
+		"/bin/echo",
+		"/bin/date",
+	}
+
+	for _, p := range paths {
+		setupRootfsBinary(t, rootfs, p)
+	}
+}
+
+// setupRootfsBinary installs a busybox link in the desired path
+func setupRootfsBinary(t *testing.T, rootfs, path string) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	dst := filepath.Join(rootfs, path)
+	err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(dst), 666)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	src := filepath.Join(
+		"test-resources", "busybox",
+		fmt.Sprintf("busybox-%s-%s", runtime.GOOS, runtime.GOARCH),
+	)
+
+	err = os.Link(src, dst)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+}
diff --git a/drivers/shared/executor/test-resources/busybox/README b/drivers/shared/executor/test-resources/busybox/README
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f60a0f318
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/shared/executor/test-resources/busybox/README
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Downloaded busybox https://busybox.net/downloads/binaries/
+
+Busybox binaries are statically linked binaries, that is a multi-call binary.  It's a single binary that can act like many commonly used utilities (e.g. /bin/sh, echo, sleep, etc).  More info is found in https://busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html .
diff --git a/drivers/shared/executor/test-resources/busybox/busybox-linux-amd64 b/drivers/shared/executor/test-resources/busybox/busybox-linux-amd64
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..3391e45b3
Binary files /dev/null and b/drivers/shared/executor/test-resources/busybox/busybox-linux-amd64 differ