Please upgrade to 0.9.0

We are currently in UpstreamVersionFreeze. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess if you want an exception.

Changelog (From Qemu Website, http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/changelog.html)
  - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
  - Async file I/O API
  - New qcow2 disk image format
  - Support of multiple VM snapshots
  - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
  - SMM support
  - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
  - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
  - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
  - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
  - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
  - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
  - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
  - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)

It's worth noting that the current KVM package (upstream v16) in feisty is based on qemu 0.9.0, and having qemu be an older version is going to cause some significant disk image incompatibilities between the two packages, resulting in some whinging and bug reports.

As one example, the new qcow2 disk format is required in the current KVM to support vm snapshots -- yet the qemu-img utility in the current qemu package is incapable of creating a qcow2 file. And if a qcow2 file is created for use with kvm, it will be unusable with the current 0.8.2 version of qemu.

On the other hand, the debian package is currently in experimental.

Overall, I think a UVFe for this is a good idea.

0.9.0 is in Gutsy.