sudo make install doesn't install qemu binary

[Karl-Philipp Richter]

Hi together,
I noticed that <code>./configure && make && sudo make install</code> (e.g. on branch stable-1.5) no longer installs the qemu binary (in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. It would be nice if this works out-of-the-box.
Thanks in advance for taking care about this.

[Stefan Weil (ubuntu-weilnetz)]

The binary "qemu" is now called "qemu-system-i386".

QEMU provides more than one binary since several years.
Here is the list for system emulation:

qemu-system-alpha, qemu-system-arm, qemu-system-cris, qemu-system-i386,
qemu-system-lm32, qemu-system-m68k, qemu-system-microblazeel,
qemu-system-microblaze, qemu-system-mips64el, qemu-system-mips64,
qemu-system-mipsel, qemu-system-mips, qemu-system-moxie,
qemu-system-or32, qemu-system-ppc64, qemu-system-ppcemb,
qemu-system-ppc, qemu-system-s390x, qemu-system-sh4eb.
qemu-system-sh4, qemu-system-sparc64, qemu-system-sparc,
qemu-system-unicore32, qemu-system-x86_64, qemu-system-xtensaeb,
qemu-system-xtensa

[Karl-Philipp Richter (krichter722)]

Thanks for your answer. I'm confused! A lot of frontends (like qemu-launcher) ask for the qemu binary. Haven't they noticed this change? How can one make qemu-launcher work again? Is it ok to link qemu-system-i386 to qemu?

[Peter Maydell (pmaydell)]

Judging from its website, qemu-launcher hasn't had a release or even a change in its source code for over five years. It's not very surprising that it's broken. I suggest you find a replacement that's actively maintained and keeps up with changes in QEMU.

[Karl-Philipp Richter (krichter722)]

Right! I didn't check that because I assumed Ubuntu only uses maintained projects. Sorry for not checking. After a day using console seems fine...