diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 9e3b664..8a8a0ef 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -276,6 +276,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "vmm-sys-util",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "vhost"
+version = "0.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3b56bf8f178fc500fe14505fca8b00dec76fc38f2304f461c8d9d7547982311d"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags",
+ "libc",
+ "vm-memory 0.7.0",
+ "vmm-sys-util",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "vhost-device-i2c"
 version = "0.1.0"
@@ -284,7 +296,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "log",
  "thiserror",
- "vhost",
+ "vhost 0.3.0",
  "vhost-user-backend",
  "virtio-bindings",
  "virtio-queue",
@@ -299,7 +311,7 @@ source = "git+https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost-user-backend?rev=4047c697470cc6c
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "log",
- "vhost",
+ "vhost 0.2.0",
  "virtio-bindings",
  "virtio-queue",
  "vm-memory 0.7.0",
diff --git a/i2c/Cargo.toml b/i2c/Cargo.toml
index 4340251..ae75883 100644
--- a/i2c/Cargo.toml
+++ b/i2c/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ clap = { version = "=3.0.0-beta.2",  features = ["yaml"] }
 libc = ">=0.2.95"
 log = ">=0.4.6"
 thiserror = "1.0"
-vhost = { version = "0.2", features = ["vhost-user-slave"] }
+vhost = { version = "0.3", features = ["vhost-user-slave"] }
 vhost-user-backend = { git = "https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost-user-backend", rev = "4047c697470cc6c37e8e1835025b091d2b59c2f7" }
 virtio-bindings = ">=0.1"
 virtio-queue = { git = "https://github.com/rust-vmm/vm-virtio", rev = "66cda80" }