qemu (1:2.12+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium Since qemu 2.12, [G]UI display frontends can be built as modules. Debian creates new package, qemu-system-gui, which currently includes GTK3 support. This also switches display from SDL to GTK. Qemu-system-* packages recommends installing qemu-system-gui, so by default on upgrade you will have new package installed, and local GUI will continue to work. However, if you choose to not install recommended packages, you might consider installing qemu-system-gui package separately, if you need local GUI support as well. Without this package, qemu-system-* becomes "headless", and can be used on servers to reduce amount of dependencies - this way, no X11 stuff is needed by qemu-system anymore. -- Michael Tokarev Sun, 27 Apr 2018 09:18:32 +0300 qemu (1:2.2+dfsg-6exp) unstable; urgency=medium Since Debian release 2.2+dfsg-6exp, a new package named qemu-block-extra has been created and some less frequently used block backends has been split out of main qemu-system binaries and from qemu-img binary to this new package. The backends which has been split are: curl iscsi rbd (ceph/rados) ssh If you use any of these, please install qemu-block-extra package in addition to qemu-system-* or qemu-utils package, because without it these block backends won't work anymore. -- Michael Tokarev Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:29:55 +0300 qemu (2.0.0+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low qemu-system-* packages does not provide /usr/bin/qemu alternative anymore, and all various alternatives will be unregistered at new individual qemu-system packages install. This is because different architectures are not really alternatives, and never has been. Historically, qemu emulated just one architecture, so the name "qemu" was used for the binary. However when more architectures were added, the old name "qemu" was used as an alternative, pointing to one of the emulators. Upstream does not use the name "qemu" for binaries for a long time. If you have scripts using the old name "qemu" please update them to use the right qemu-system-* binary. -- Michael Tokarev Fri, 11 Apr 2014 19:57:22 +0400