diff --git a/test/common/autotest_common.sh b/test/common/autotest_common.sh
index ab5d97898..12cca86ce 100755
--- a/test/common/autotest_common.sh
+++ b/test/common/autotest_common.sh
@@ -56,6 +56,16 @@ fi
 : ${SPDK_RUN_ASAN=1}; export SPDK_RUN_ASAN
 : ${SPDK_RUN_UBSAN=1}; export SPDK_RUN_UBSAN
 
+if [ -z "$DEPENDENCY_DIR" ]; then
+	export DEPENDENCY_DIR=/home/sys_sgsw
+else
+	export DEPENDENCY_DIR
+fi
+
+if [ ! -z "$HUGEMEM" ]; then
+	export HUGEMEM
+fi
+
 # pass our valgrind desire on to unittest.sh
 if [ $SPDK_RUN_VALGRIND -eq 0 ]; then
 	export valgrind=''
@@ -132,8 +142,8 @@ if [ -d /usr/src/fio ]; then
 	config_params+=' --with-fio=/usr/src/fio'
 fi
 
-if [ -d /home/sys_sgsw/vtune_codes ]; then
-	config_params+=' --with-vtune=/home/sys_sgsw/vtune_codes'
+if [ -d ${DEPENDENCY_DIR}/vtune_codes ]; then
+	config_params+=' --with-vtune='${DEPENDENCY_DIR}'/vtune_codes'
 fi
 
 if [ -d /usr/include/rbd ] &&  [ -d /usr/include/rados ]; then
diff --git a/test/nvme/hotplug.sh b/test/nvme/hotplug.sh
index b6e8f250d..ca661b6f8 100755
--- a/test/nvme/hotplug.sh
+++ b/test/nvme/hotplug.sh
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ testdir=$(readlink -f $(dirname $0))
 rootdir=$(readlink -f $testdir/../..)
 source $rootdir/test/common/autotest_common.sh
 
+if [ -z "${DEPENDENCY_DIR}" ]; then
+	echo DEPENDENCY_DIR not defined!
+	exit 1
+fi
+
 function ssh_vm() {
 	sshpass -p "$password" ssh -o PubkeyAuthentication=no -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -p 10022 root@localhost "$@"
 }
@@ -72,9 +77,9 @@ function devices_delete() {
 }
 
 password=$1
-base_img=/home/sys_sgsw/fedora24.img
-test_img=/home/sys_sgsw/fedora24_test.img
-qemu_pidfile=/home/sys_sgsw/qemupid
+base_img=${DEPENDENCY_DIR}/fedora24.img
+test_img=${DEPENDENCY_DIR}/fedora24_test.img
+qemu_pidfile=${DEPENDENCY_DIR}/qemupid
 
 if [ ! -e "$base_img" ]; then
 	echo "Hotplug VM image not found; skipping test"
diff --git a/test/nvme/spdk_nvme_cli.sh b/test/nvme/spdk_nvme_cli.sh
index a3cff6d7d..9984f8c4a 100755
--- a/test/nvme/spdk_nvme_cli.sh
+++ b/test/nvme/spdk_nvme_cli.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,13 @@ testdir=$(readlink -f $(dirname $0))
 rootdir=$(readlink -f $testdir/../..)
 source $rootdir/scripts/common.sh
 source $rootdir/test/common/autotest_common.sh
-spdk_nvme_cli="/home/sys_sgsw/nvme-cli"
+
+if [ -z "${DEPENDENCY_DIR}" ]; then
+        echo DEPENDENCY_DIR not defined!
+        exit 1
+fi
+
+spdk_nvme_cli="${DEPENDENCY_DIR}/nvme-cli"
 
 if [ ! -d $spdk_nvme_cli ]; then
 	echo "nvme-cli repository not found at $spdk_nvme_cli; skipping tests."
diff --git a/test/nvmf/nvme_cli/nvme_cli.sh b/test/nvmf/nvme_cli/nvme_cli.sh
index 8028897c0..c2171def2 100755
--- a/test/nvmf/nvme_cli/nvme_cli.sh
+++ b/test/nvmf/nvme_cli/nvme_cli.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,13 @@ testdir=$(readlink -f $(dirname $0))
 rootdir=$(readlink -f $testdir/../../..)
 source $rootdir/test/common/autotest_common.sh
 source $rootdir/test/nvmf/common.sh
-spdk_nvme_cli="/home/sys_sgsw/nvme-cli"
+
+if [ -z "${DEPENDENCY_DIR}" ]; then
+        echo DEPENDENCY_DIR not defined!
+        exit 1
+fi
+
+spdk_nvme_cli="${DEPENDENCY_DIR}/nvme-cli"
 
 MALLOC_BDEV_SIZE=64
 MALLOC_BLOCK_SIZE=512