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Hi all,

While working on updating the version of QEMU [1] used on the project, 
for some occasions people outside asked me why the project builds QEMU 
from source instead of relying on distro's provided. When I started 
contributing to this project I asked it myself many times but I never 
looked for an answer.

I can think on many reasons but I would be guessing. So If someone could 
share the rationale here, I would appreciate it. Perhaps more important, 
we could discuss if the scenario stands the same so that we should stick 
with that approach or if we could manage the QEMU build differently 
nowadays.

[1] https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/pull/1349

Thanks in advance,

Wainer dos Santos Moschetta

Software Engineer, Red Hat, Brazil