diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index eca876f85d..cfa2af9f7a 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -19,3 +19,6 @@
 [submodule "roms/sgabios"]
 	path = roms/sgabios
 	url = git://git.qemu.org/sgabios.git
+[submodule "pixman"]
+	path = pixman
+	url = git://anongit.freedesktop.org/pixman
diff --git a/pixman b/pixman
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000..97336fad32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pixman
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 97336fad32acf802003855cd8bd6477fa49a12e3