I presume you are looking for the package qemu-system-x86.

There is no single qemu binary since there are separate ones for each
ISA. The binary for x86_64 is qemu-system-x86_64.

On 25/01/2025 17:28, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I thought I had only asked for qemu-x86, but "apt list | grep -i qemu"
> shows...
>
> aqemu/stable 0.9.2-3 amd64
> golang-github-digitalocean-go-qemu-dev/stable 0.0~git20221209.f035778-2 all
> grub-firmware-qemu/stable,stable-security 2.06-13+deb12u1 amd64
> ipxe-qemu/stable 1.0.0+git-20190125.36a4c85-5.1 all
> libvirt-clients-qemu/stable 9.0.0-4devuan1 all
> libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-dbgsym/stable 9.0.0-4devuan1 amd64
> libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu/stable 9.0.0-4devuan1 amd64
> nova-compute-qemu/stable,stable-security 2:26.2.2-1~deb12u3 all
> qemu-block-extra/stable 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u12 amd64
> qemu-efi-aarch64/stable,stable-security 2022.11-6+deb12u1 all
> qemu-efi-arm/stable,stable-security 2022.11-6+deb12u1 all
> qemu-efi/stable,stable-security 2022.11-6+deb12u1 all
> qemu-guest-agent/stable 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u12 amd64
> qemu-system-arm/stable 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u12 amd64
> qemu-system-common/stable 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u12 amd64
> qemu-system-data/stable 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u12 all
> qemu-system-gui/stable 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u12 amd64
> qemu-system-mips/stable 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u12 amd64
> qemu-system-misc/stable 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u12 amd64
> qemu-system-ppc/stable 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u12 amd64
> qemu-system-sparc/stable 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u12 amd64
> qemu-system-x86/stable 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u12 amd64
> qemu-system-xen/stable 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u12 amd64
> qemu-system/stable 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u12 amd64
> qemu-user-binfmt/stable 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u12 amd64
> qemu-user-static/stable 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u12 amd64
> qemu-user/stable 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u12 amd64
> qemu-utils/stable 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u12 amd64
> qemu-web-desktop/stable 23.02.16+ds1-1 amd64
> qemubuilder/stable 0.89 amd64
> sbuild-qemu/stable 0.85.0 all
> u-boot-qemu/stable 2023.01+dfsg-2+deb12u1 all
>
> ...and there doesn't seem to be a qemu executable in /usr/bin/
> What am I doing wrong?
>