Mucking about with virtual disks, I wanted to install qemu on a AWS EC2 instance in order to use qemu-img.

Not finding it in a yum repo, I built it from scratch:

$ uname -a

Linux ip-10-0-1-238 4.4.41-36.55.amzn1.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 18 01:03:26 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Steps:

sudo yum install -y ghc-glib-devel ghc-glib autoconf autogen intltool libtool

wget http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-2.8.0.tar.xz
tar xvJf qemu-2.8.0.tar.xz
cd qemu-2.8.0
./configure
make
sudo make install

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I hit a few errors, recorded here for passing Googlers: