diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index d35e9f6b20bb23c7580de488ebaabc6c031343d2..727f3a7a2cfe600ffdb861bafada7db415d020e5 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -3352,6 +3352,7 @@ Rust
 M: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
 S: Maintained
 F: rust/qemu-api
+F: rust/qemu-api-macros
 F: rust/rustfmt.toml
 
 SLIRP
diff --git a/rust/meson.build b/rust/meson.build
index 4a58d106b1dd1d7bee39dd129f57ddb5a95bd9b7..7a32b1b195083571931ad589965c10ddaf6383b1 100644
--- a/rust/meson.build
+++ b/rust/meson.build
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+subdir('qemu-api-macros')
 subdir('qemu-api')
diff --git a/rust/qemu-api-macros/Cargo.lock b/rust/qemu-api-macros/Cargo.lock
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fdc0fce116c795da63fff3cfcddab164c98d47fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust/qemu-api-macros/Cargo.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# This file is automatically @generated by Cargo.
+# It is not intended for manual editing.
+version = 3
+
+[[package]]
+name = "proc-macro2"
+version = "1.0.86"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5e719e8df665df0d1c8fbfd238015744736151d4445ec0836b8e628aae103b77"
+dependencies = [
+ "unicode-ident",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "qemu_api_macros"
+version = "0.1.0"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "quote"
+version = "1.0.36"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0fa76aaf39101c457836aec0ce2316dbdc3ab723cdda1c6bd4e6ad4208acaca7"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "syn"
+version = "2.0.72"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "dc4b9b9bf2add8093d3f2c0204471e951b2285580335de42f9d2534f3ae7a8af"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "unicode-ident",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-ident"
+version = "1.0.12"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3354b9ac3fae1ff6755cb6db53683adb661634f67557942dea4facebec0fee4b"
diff --git a/rust/qemu-api-macros/Cargo.toml b/rust/qemu-api-macros/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..144cc3650fa04b2fa35a1185d970e1bab210a4eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust/qemu-api-macros/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+[package]
+name = "qemu_api_macros"
+version = "0.1.0"
+edition = "2021"
+authors = ["Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>"]
+license = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
+readme = "README.md"
+homepage = "https://www.qemu.org"
+description = "Rust bindings for QEMU - Utility macros"
+repository = "https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/"
+resolver = "2"
+publish = false
+keywords = []
+categories = []
+
+[lib]
+proc-macro = true
+
+[dependencies]
+proc-macro2 = "1"
+quote = "1"
+syn = "2"
+
+# Do not include in any global workspace
+[workspace]
diff --git a/rust/qemu-api-macros/README.md b/rust/qemu-api-macros/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f60f54ac4be08ccfbcfea8e21ceb15d25012dfc3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust/qemu-api-macros/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+# `qemu-api-macros` - Utility macros for defining QEMU devices
diff --git a/rust/qemu-api-macros/meson.build b/rust/qemu-api-macros/meson.build
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..48af91ed389120ddd6e15f6ee002f5da7063e329
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust/qemu-api-macros/meson.build
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+add_languages('rust', required: true, native: true)
+
+quote_dep = dependency('quote-1-rs', native: true)
+syn_dep = dependency('syn-2-rs', native: true)
+proc_macro2_dep = dependency('proc-macro2-1-rs', native: true)
+
+_qemu_api_macros_rs = import('rust').proc_macro(
+  'qemu_api_macros',
+  files('src/lib.rs'),
+  override_options: ['rust_std=2021', 'build.rust_std=2021'],
+  rust_args: [
+    '--cfg', 'use_fallback',
+    '--cfg', 'feature="syn-error"',
+    '--cfg', 'feature="proc-macro"',
+  ],
+  dependencies: [
+    proc_macro2_dep,
+    quote_dep,
+    syn_dep,
+  ],
+)
+
+qemu_api_macros = declare_dependency(
+  link_with: _qemu_api_macros_rs,
+)
diff --git a/rust/qemu-api-macros/src/lib.rs b/rust/qemu-api-macros/src/lib.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..331bc9e215e0115191865cb8a29c4605e03fdaa8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust/qemu-api-macros/src/lib.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+// Copyright 2024, Linaro Limited
+// Author(s): Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+use proc_macro::TokenStream;
+use quote::{format_ident, quote};
+use syn::{parse_macro_input, DeriveInput};
+
+#[proc_macro_derive(Object)]
+pub fn derive_object(input: TokenStream) -> TokenStream {
+    let input = parse_macro_input!(input as DeriveInput);
+
+    let name = input.ident;
+    let module_static = format_ident!("__{}_LOAD_MODULE", name);
+
+    let expanded = quote! {
+        #[allow(non_upper_case_globals)]
+        #[used]
+        #[cfg_attr(target_os = "linux", link_section = ".ctors")]
+        #[cfg_attr(target_os = "macos", link_section = "__DATA,__mod_init_func")]
+        #[cfg_attr(target_os = "windows", link_section = ".CRT$XCU")]
+        pub static #module_static: extern "C" fn() = {
+            extern "C" fn __register() {
+                unsafe {
+                    ::qemu_api::bindings::type_register_static(&<#name as ::qemu_api::definitions::ObjectImpl>::TYPE_INFO);
+                }
+            }
+
+            extern "C" fn __load() {
+                unsafe {
+                    ::qemu_api::bindings::register_module_init(
+                        Some(__register),
+                        ::qemu_api::bindings::module_init_type_MODULE_INIT_QOM
+                    );
+                }
+            }
+
+            __load
+        };
+    };
+
+    TokenStream::from(expanded)
+}
diff --git a/rust/qemu-api/meson.build b/rust/qemu-api/meson.build
index cf2b465e9f7cc7fb10af0d3aac469b58211cd64e..2030c24ed980596da0d53944252409e535510195 100644
--- a/rust/qemu-api/meson.build
+++ b/rust/qemu-api/meson.build
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ _qemu_api_rs = static_library(
     '--cfg', 'MESON',
     '--cfg', 'feature="allocator"',
   ],
+  dependencies: [
+    qemu_api_macros,
+  ],
 )
 
 qemu_api = declare_dependency(
