It's not used as part of the build process or searched for at build time, and the QEMU driver detects its path at runtime, so one could think that the BuildRequires is unnecessary. But we actually need it to be present at build time in order to run the full test suite. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com&gt; --- libvirt.spec.in | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in index c542ec3b2b..1f77cd90b7 100644 --- a/libvirt.spec.in +++ b/libvirt.spec.in @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ BuildRequires: util-linux %if %{with_qemu} # For managing ACLs BuildRequires: libacl-devel -# From QEMU RPMs +# From QEMU RPMs, used by virstoragetest BuildRequires: /usr/bin/qemu-img %endif # For LVM drivers -- 2.40.1