diff --git a/vip-portal/src/main/resources/vm/wrapper.vm b/vip-portal/src/main/resources/vm/wrapper.vm
index 28c4863f1..225015715 100644
--- a/vip-portal/src/main/resources/vm/wrapper.vm
+++ b/vip-portal/src/main/resources/vm/wrapper.vm
@@ -159,7 +159,9 @@ fi
 # Change PYTHONPATH to make all strings unicode by default in python2 (as in python3)
 # Otherwise `bosh exec` fails on any non-ascii characters in outputs
 echo "import sys; sys.setdefaultencoding(\"UTF8\")" > sitecustomize.py
-PYTHONPATH=".:$PYTHONPATH" $BOSHEXEC exec launch $JSONFILE input_param_file.json -v $PWD/../cache:$PWD/../cache
+#creating a temporary directory for bindmount /tmp of containers
+mkdir -p tmp
+PYTHONPATH=".:$PYTHONPATH" $BOSHEXEC exec launch $JSONFILE input_param_file.json -v $PWD/../cache:$PWD/../cache -v $PWD/tmp:/tmp
 
 if [ $? != 0 ]
 then