diff --git a/compute/compute-node.Dockerfile b/compute/compute-node.Dockerfile
index 39136fe573..ca691a8307 100644
--- a/compute/compute-node.Dockerfile
+++ b/compute/compute-node.Dockerfile
@@ -149,6 +149,9 @@ RUN case $DEBIAN_VERSION in \
     ninja-build git autoconf automake libtool build-essential bison flex libreadline-dev \
     zlib1g-dev libxml2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libossp-uuid-dev wget ca-certificates pkg-config libssl-dev \
     libicu-dev libxslt1-dev liblz4-dev libzstd-dev zstd curl unzip g++ \
+    bpfcc-tools \
+    libbpfcc \
+    libbpfcc-dev \
     libclang-dev \
     jsonnet \
     $VERSION_INSTALLS \
diff --git a/compute/vm-image-spec-bookworm.yaml b/compute/vm-image-spec-bookworm.yaml
index 6150641487..9ccce1047d 100644
--- a/compute/vm-image-spec-bookworm.yaml
+++ b/compute/vm-image-spec-bookworm.yaml
@@ -41,10 +41,11 @@ commands:
     shell: '/bin/sql_exporter -config.file=/etc/sql_exporter_autoscaling.yml -web.listen-address=:9499'
   - name: symlink-kernel-modules
     user: root
-    sysvInitAction: sysinit
+    sysvInitAction: respawn
     shell: |
       mkdir -p /lib/modules
       ln -s /neonvm/tools/lib/modules /lib/modules
+      export PATH="/neonvm/tools/bin:$PATH"
   # Rsyslog by default creates a unix socket under /dev/log . That's where Postgres sends logs also.
   # We run syslog with postgres user so it can't create /dev/log. Instead we configure rsyslog to
   # use a different path for the socket. The symlink actually points to our custom path.