diff --git a/roles/container-engine/kata-containers/templates/configuration-qemu.toml.j2 b/roles/container-engine/kata-containers/templates/configuration-qemu.toml.j2
index 15511442c..36ea8036d 100644
--- a/roles/container-engine/kata-containers/templates/configuration-qemu.toml.j2
+++ b/roles/container-engine/kata-containers/templates/configuration-qemu.toml.j2
@@ -678,6 +678,16 @@ experimental=[]
 # (default: false)
 # enable_pprof = true
 
+{% if kata_containers_version is version('3.4.0', '>=') %}
+# Indicates the CreateContainer request timeout needed for the workload(s)
+# It using guest_pull this includes the time to pull the image inside the guest
+# Defaults to 60 second(s)
+# Note: The effective timeout is determined by the lesser of two values: runtime-request-timeout from kubelet config
+# (https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/command-line-tools-reference/kubelet/#:~:text=runtime%2Drequest%2Dtimeout) and create_container_timeout.
+# In essence, the timeout used for guest pull=runtime-request-timeout<create_container_timeout?runtime-request-timeout:create_container_timeout.
+create_container_timeout = 60
+{% endif %}
+
 # WARNING: All the options in the following section have not been implemented yet.
 # This section was added as a placeholder. DO NOT USE IT!
 [image]