Package Details: quickemu 4.9.9-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/quickemu.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: quickemu
Description: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.
Upstream URL: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu
Licenses: MIT
Conflicts: quickemu
Provides: quickemu
Submitter: sgnh
Maintainer: sgnh
Last Packager: sgnh
Votes: 43
Popularity: 2.56
First Submitted: 2021-10-08 14:45 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-02-10 18:10 (UTC)

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Frestein commented on 2026-02-14 04:30 (UTC)

Please, add conflict with quickemu-git.

sgnh commented on 2025-10-02 06:11 (UTC) (edited on 2026-01-25 14:00 (UTC) by sgnh)

Use quickemu-git for QEMU 10 support. 4.9.8 has been released.

sgnh commented on 2025-09-27 02:40 (UTC) (edited on 2025-09-27 02:42 (UTC) by sgnh)

Yep you're right it works with 6 or newer but not 10 is what I meant.

I know that it was initially due to a bug but it's still upstream's decision to not release a fix for only that in 4.9.7 and instead focus on the next version (git). It's been 5 months now and from the beginning they've said to use the git version if you want to use QEMU 10. QEMU 10 bugs are also fixed in the git version and not in 4.9.7.

sleeptightAnsiC commented on 2025-09-26 23:33 (UTC) (edited on 2025-09-26 23:38 (UTC) by sleeptightAnsiC)

@sgnh I think there is some misunderstanding here.

quickemu4.9.7 supports qemu6 OR NEWER - qemu10 is also supported by that version. This error was caused by a bug in version parsing code, it was NOT an upstream decision. PR 1640 does not remove anything, it only fixes the check for longer version strings (it was incorrectly detecting "10.0.0" as equal-lower-than "6.0.0")

This patch is already applied to quickemu4.9.7 in many distributions that ship with qemu10, examples: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/quickemu/-/commit/822c93f1712bd0706da685d1c0ee077d23f03629 https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/commit/ed937a5885868ae3585317a3aba5a7303621bfd8 https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/quickemu/quickemu/fedora-rawhide.html#changelog https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/419119/files

I just want to ensure that the problem is fully understood. You're the boss here.

sgnh commented on 2025-09-26 22:56 (UTC) (edited on 2025-09-27 01:16 (UTC) by sgnh)

@sleeptightAnsiC As we speak 4.9.7 supports QEMU 6-9 and the git version supports QEMU 10. This is a decision by upstream, I have nothing to do with it. To just remove the version check here and package it as 4.9.7 is wrong. It creates an untested and unsupported fork. Use the quickemu-git package with QEMU 10, or quickemu with QEMU 6-9 until there's a new and supported release for QEMU 10.

sleeptightAnsiC commented on 2025-09-26 20:11 (UTC)

@sgnh I realize you’ve already said "no" to backporting, but could you reconsider it, please? https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/quickemu-project/quickemu/pull/1640.patch

The issue really makes Quickemu unusable and only this AUR package seems affected at the moment. Since AUR is not considered official by any means, I think that backporting in this exact case (blocker on launch) would be fine.

I hope you don't mind my comment. I'm asking for it only because I see a lot of people going to Quickemu github and complaining or reporting duplicates.

sgnh commented on 2025-05-21 15:12 (UTC) (edited on 2025-05-21 15:13 (UTC) by sgnh)

@VorpalWay If the patch gets applied here it would effectively make it an unreleased version which you as you mentioned are trying to avoid.

You have to wait for upstream to fully support QEMU 10 and release a new version. Alternatively use the git version or patch it yourself and accept the risk of bugs.

FabioLolix commented on 2025-05-18 10:33 (UTC)

@VorpalWay

VorpalWay commented on 2025-05-17 21:50 (UTC)

It would be good to bring in the patch from https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/pull/1640 as currently quickemu is unusable on Arch Linux:

ERROR! QEMU 6.0.0 or newer is required, detected 10.0.0.

The other option is to switch to the git version, but in general I'd rather stick to released versions unless it is software I'm developing myself.

FabioLolix commented on 2024-12-04 22:16 (UTC) (edited on 2024-12-04 22:16 (UTC) by FabioLolix)

Fixed pkgbuild: https://github.com/FabioLolix/AURFIX/blob/main/q/quickemu/PKGBUILD

Diff: https://github.com/FabioLolix/AURFIX/commit/f270d637333a2a1e73a9fe44f1844c4b7cd01050

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